Head of Atmospheric Modeling

Job description

About our Portfolio Company Our company is an early-stage startup building weather modification systems. Their mission is to unlock abundance: ending droughts, suppressing wildfires, greening deserts, and cooling cities. About the role: We are seeking a Head of Atmospheric Modeling to lead the development our NWP and AI modeling. You will build the bridge between theoretical validation and operational reality, implementing state of the art NWP and AI weather modeling into a cloud-native environment for real-time data assimilation from monitoring and deployment hardware to enable predictive decision-making for operational deployments. Though not required, you could be a senior scientist-engineer coming out of NCAR, NOAA, DOE, a national lab, a leading research university, or an AI weather startup/company with deep experience in numerical weather prediction (NWP) and/or next-generation AI weather modeling emulators. You function as both a lead architect and a hands-on builder. As we are a deployment-focused company, you will need to be excited not just about research and modeling for its own sake, but for the purposes of enabling the next generation of climate adaptation through weat...