The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is seeking a motivated, innovative, and technically oriented individual to join our multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers. This position plays a critical role in developing, maintaining, and enhancing CARB’s emissions inventories, which support State Implementation Plans (SIPs), community health initiatives, regulatory development, and air quality planning across California.
The Emissions Inventory Section is responsible for maintaining and updating CARB’s statewide criteria pollutant and toxic air contaminant inventories. Staff work closely with California’s 35 air districts to collect stationary source emissions data required under state and federal regulations. The team also collaborates with CARB’s internal programs and local districts to gather emissions data for area wide, mobile source, and event categories. Using growth and control factors developed with district partners and CARB technical teams, the section forecasts emissions inventories to future years to support air quality modeling and planning.
To improve data quality and accessibility, the section develops and maintains applications for emissions data collection, data management, and reporting. These tools provide communities, air districts, regulators, researchers, state agencies, and other stakeholders with reliable, transparent, and user friendly emissions data.
This position serves a vital function in the section’s work by compiling and performing rigorous quality assurance on emissions inventories submitted by local air districts and internal CARB programs. The incumbent will collaborate closely with the team’s lead forecaster to develop control profiles informed by emerging regulations and new control technologies. In addition, the position will be responsible for creating analytical tools and summary reports to evaluate emissions inventory forecasts used for air quality modeling and planning. The incumbent will also prepare standardized documentation outlining internal procedures for updating emissions inventories and control profiles. Finally, the role involves working with CARB staff, other government agencies, and academic partners to apply advanced QA/QC methods and strengthen the overall accuracy and reliability of CARB’s emissions data.
The work produced by this section is foundational to improving air quality statewide. In this position, you will directly support air quality planning, photochemical modeling, regulatory development, community level emission reduction strategies, and project level environmental assessments. Your contributions will help ensure the accuracy and reliability of emissions data used to guide California’s most important air quality and public health decisions.
The ideal candidate will have a strong scientific and technical background in one or more of the following areas: emissions forecasting, air quality, air quality modeling, emissions inventory development, stationary source emissions, or a closely related field. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, collaborative capabilities, and comfort working with large datasets are highly desirable.
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.
This position may be eligible for hybrid in-office work and in-state telework. The amount of telework is at the agency's discretion and is based on the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) current telework policy. While the CARB may support telework, some in-person attendance is also required.
The positions at the CARB may be eligible for telework with in-person attendance based on the operational needs of the position under Government Code 14200 for eligible applicants residing in California, subject to the candidate meeting telework eligibility criteria outlined in the CalEPA telework policy and/or future program need. Employees not residing in California are not eligible for telework. Regardless of hybrid telework eligibility, all employees may be required to report to the position’s designated headquarters location at their own expense, as indicated on their duty statement.
Effective July 1, 2025, the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) implemented the Personal Leave Program 2025 (PLP 2025). PLP 2025 directs that each employee shall receive a 3 percent reduction in pay in exchange for 5 hours PLP 2025 leave credits, monthly. The salary range(s) included in the job advertisement do not reflect the 3 percent reduction in pay.
- Position located in a high-rise building.
- Requires being stationary, consistent with office work, for extended periods.
- Standard office environment (artificial lighting, controlled temperature, etc.).
- Daily use of a personal computer, office equipment, and/or telephone.
