Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Scientist

Tomorrow.io

About The Position

The R&D Team at Tomorrow.io is a dynamic mix of scientists and engineers. Our mission is to generate the best and most novel data and models across all times: historical, real-time, and forecast. The story just begins when the data hits our ingest and post-processing services. Every product that the user sees is the result of a pipeline of algorithms that needs to be run quickly and continuously, in an operational environment. We are the team that builds the architecture behind the data and the models, preparing the weather analyses for the Product and Engineering team to serve our large and diverse customer base. We are seeking an Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Scientist to develop and maintain our comprehensive instrument simulator software package. Tomorrow.io operates precipitation radar and the world’s largest constellation of passive microwave sounder satellites. Simulations of measurements from these instruments, driven by high-resolution atmospheric datasets, are critical for validating instrument performance, retrieval algorithms, and performing trade studies for the next generation of Tomorrow.io instruments (DeepSky). You’ll work with the instrument science team to improve products from Tomorrow.io’s current constellation, and take a lead role in defining the next generation of satellites (DeepSky)!

Requirements

Ph.D in atmospheric science, physics, or a related field
Direct experience with modern, comprehensive atmospheric radiative transfer model software packages (e.g., CRTM, RTTOV, ARTS).
Experience working with cloud-based environments and services (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) or high-performance computing (HPC) clusters
Willingness to adopt to the rapidly changing landscape of coding using LLM tools like Cursor as well as how ML techniques can be applied in your area of expertise
Strong communication skills, including presenting and distilling complex topics and findings to collaborators and stakeholders of diverse backgrounds
Demonstrated ability to collaborate on cross-disciplinary teams, prioritize competing efforts, and deliver on schedule and budget

Responsibilities

Take ownership of the instrument simulator software. Adapt it to new input datasets and instrument spectral bands. Improve handling of surface properties and particle scattering to match the state of the science.
Work with the instrument science team to incorporate simulator improvements in data products and calibration/validation processes.
Take the lead in instrument trade studies for our next generation of satellites.
Be a part of regular "on call" rotations, and act as a first responder when incidents occur (alerting customers; triaging the underlying issue)