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Research Engineer, Climate Modeling

Ai2· Applied Science
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Seattle, WA$146.9k - $220.3kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Research Engineer to help develop an AI-powered physics-informed hybrid climate model ( NeuralGCM+ ) for multidecadal forecasts, collaborating with Ai2’s Climate Modeling team. Three-year project funded initially, open-source development, and emphasis on coupling with an ML ocean model, cloud/GPU-enabled training pipelines, and community uptake.

Responsibilities

  • Adapting the training pipeline and data needs of NeuralGCM to run efficiently on Google Cloud resources and on NVIDIA GPUs.
  • Documenting this training pipeline and distributing code on a GitHub repo.
  • Implementing and testing a strategy for coupling NeuralGCM with the chosen ML ocean model.
  • Open-source code development as part of a tightly connected team, including daily meetings, code review, design documents and external collaborators.
  • Developing and presenting tutorials on NeuralGCM+ to interested user groups.

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of experience building and deploying a relevant ML application in a practical or academic research setting and be fluent in Python and collaborative coding practices.
  • A B.Sc. in computer or computational science, atmospheric science or a related geophysical science, or applied mathematics/statistics.
  • Experience in developing ML training code for use in a cloud computing environment.
  • Demonstrated excellent communications skills.

Skills

Required:PythonCloud ML training
Nice to have:JAX

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance program for team members and their families.
  • Health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans.
  • 401k plan enrollment.
  • $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses and $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
  • 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.
  • Annual bonuses and participation in the long-term incentive plan.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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