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Young Investigator, Climate Modeling

Ai2· Applied Science
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$159.7kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Three-year Young Investigator role focused on developing an AI-powered physics-informed hybrid climate model (NeuralGCM+) capable of multidecadal forecasts, trained on historical data, to improve future climate projections and generalization to unseen climates.

Responsibilities

  • Select, design and evaluate NeuralGCM+ training and testing cases, using both historical data and customized physics-based climate model outputs.
  • Conceiving and implementing NeuralGCM+ model improvements that increase its generalizability to unseen climates and improve the simulated coupling between earth system components such as the atmosphere, ocean, land, and sea ice, in collaboration with other team members.
  • Presenting results at major relevant AI and climate modeling conferences and in peer-reviewed publications.
  • Open-source code development as part of a tightly connected team, including daily meetings, code review, design documents and interaction with external collaborators.
  • Mentoring interns as appropriate.

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in computer or computational science, applied mathematics/statistics, or atmospheric science or a related geophysical science, with at least one accepted conference paper or peer-reviewed first-authored publication making extensive use of ML.
  • Substantial experience building and deploying a relevant ML application in a practical or academic research setting.
  • Fluency in Python and collaborative coding practices.
  • Demonstrated excellent communications skills.

Skills

Required:PythonML application developmentCommunication
Nice to have:JAXPhysically-based climate model knowledge

Benefits

  • Team members and their families are covered by medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program.
  • Team members are able to enroll in our health savings account plan, our healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and our health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
  • Team members are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
  • Team members will receive $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses and will also receive $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
  • Team members will also receive up to ten sick days per year, up to seven personal days per year, up to 20 vacation days per year and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
  • Team members will be able to receive annual bonuses.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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