Tomorrow.io's R&D Team is seeking an Atmospheric Data Engineer to build and operate the world's first and largest commercial constellation of precipitation radars and microwave sounders, ensuring the rapid and continuous processing of novel weather data and models for a diverse customer base.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional (post-graduate) experience working with modern cloud computing architectures for scientific data processing
- Demonstrated experience with the best practices in satellite data processing algorithm development, testing, reviewing, documenting
- Experience working with cloud-based environments and services (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure) including knowledge of pricing structures and cost optimization best practices
- Demonstrated experience working with common meteorological data formats (e.g., BUFR, NetCDF, etc) and cloud-native formats (e.g., zarr)
- Knowledge of satellite meteorology (particularly passive microwave and/or precipitation radar level 1 and level 2 products) is a strong plus
- cloud compute resource management
- data storage architecture
Responsibilities
- Take a lead role in optimizing and maintaining the pipeline architecture for all Tomorrow.io satellite data products
- Engineer cloud-optimized workflows to store and rapidly reprocess our satellite data when algorithms are upgraded
- Develop tools to closely monitor the data feeds for anomalies or outages
- Be a first responder when incidents occur (alerting customers; triaging the underlying issue)
- Work with the instrument science team to improve quality monitoring and provide feedback for future software and hardware upgrades
- pipeline development, maintenance, and monitoring
- data delivery to internal and external customers
Other
- Graduate degree in atmospheric science, computer science or a related field
- 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
- This position requires access to technology that is controlled under U.S. export control laws and regulations. Accordingly, this position is restricted to U.S. citizens, permanent residents and protected individuals unless and until any required licenses are obtained.
- Anticipated salary range for this role is $120k-$150k subject to local market and candidates skills and experience.
