Weather Data Scientist
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PravāhAI / Weather
Remote (India), evening overlap with US Pacific TimeFull-TimeMiddle
Salary$20K - $40K; $20K – $40K • Offers Equity; Estimated Base Salary $20K – $40K • Offers Equity
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Job Details
- Experience
- 3+ years of relevant research or operational experience with a bachelor's degree
- Required Skills
- PythonMachine Learning
Requirements
- Master's or PhD in geophysical sciences, physics, applied mathematics, CS, or statistics; or Bachelor's with 3+ years relevant experience.
- Depth in data assimilation methods (3D/4D-Var, EnKF, LETKF, EDA).
- Hands-on experience with DA frameworks (JEDI/UFO, GSI, DART, PDAF).
- Knowledge of bias correction (VarBC) and quality control.
- Experience with TB-scale geospatial and observational datasets.
- Practical experience on High Performance Computers (HPCs).
- Fluency in the Python geoscience stack (xarray, dask, zarr, netCDF).
- Experience building reproducible, production-grade pipelines.
- Prior work on projects specific to Indian geography.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate a cycling data assimilation pipeline for operational forecasting models.
- Deploy and adapt a modern DA framework (e.g. JEDI/UFO, GSI, DART, PDAF).
- Develop observation quality control, bias correction, and thinning workflows.
- Contribute to AI-based data assimilation pipelines.
- Tailor weather prediction models to renewable-sector needs.
- Assist in training AI-based weather prediction models.
- Work at the intersection of physics-based modeling and machine learning.
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