Back to jobs
New

Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Weather Science & AI

Atlanta, GA

About The Weather Company:

The Weather Company is the world’s leading weather provider, helping people and businesses make more informed decisions and take action in the face of weather. Together with advanced technology and AI, The Weather Company’s high-volume weather data, insights, advertising, and media solutions across the open web help people, businesses, and brands around the world prepare for and harness the power of weather in a scalable, privacy-forward way. The world’s most accurate forecaster globally, the company reaches hundreds of enterprise clients and more than 360 million monthly active users via its digital properties from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

Job brief:

The Consumer Weather Science team sits inside Science and Forecast Operations. We are the science engine behind weather.com, the Weather Channel mobile apps, and labs.weather.com, TWC’s experimentation surface where vertical consumer experiences (sailing, kiteboarding, golf, pollen, hiking, ski, fishing, gardening) are incubated, validated, and graduated into flagship products. We are a small, senior team of scientist-engineers who own the path from atmospheric model output to consumer experience, working closely with product, design, and engineering across the company.

You will own the technical and scientific delivery of one or more consumer vertical experiences. That means translating model output, observations, and AI-derived insights into APIs, data services, and product integrations that serve hundreds of millions of users. Your portfolio will begin with outdoor sports with room to expand into adjacent verticals as the labs pipeline evolves. You will act as the science-side product owner for those verticals: scoping each experience with product and design partners, building or evolving the data backend, orchestrating model-evaluation work with our research scientists, integrating LLM-driven content generation (AI briefings, condition explanations, alerts), and shepherding experiences from lab experiments into flagship. This is a senior individual contributor role. You will set technical direction for your verticals and serve as the science-and-engineering voice in cross-functional working groups.

The impact you'll make:

  • Science-side delivery of consumer vertical experiences from model output through production APIs to user-facing features
  • Data pipelines and APIs that serve forecast products derived from GRAF, MPAS, ECMWF, and TWC ML models to labs experiments and flagship apps
  • LLM-driven content generation in consumer experiences, including prompt engineering, evaluation harnesses, and guardrails
  • Reduction-to-practice work with research scientists 
  • Labs-to-flagship graduations, partnering with product owners, designers, and front-end engineers
  • Day-to-day use of AI coding assistants and agentic workflows as part of how the team builds

What you've accomplished:

  • 4+ years of software engineering with demonstrated ability to take projects from concept to production at consumer scale
  • Strong Python in a Linux/Unix environment. TypeScript or JavaScript for front-end integration is a plus
  • Working knowledge of atmospheric science, NWP, or a closely adjacent earth-science domain. You should be a credible scientific partner to our research scientists and able to make sound product calls under scientific uncertainty
  • Demonstrated daily use of AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, or similar)
  • AWS experience (S3, Lambda, ECS, API Gateway, SQS/SNS) and modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, IaC)
  • Hands-on production experience with LLM APIs, including prompt engineering, evaluation, guardrails, and observability
  • Comfort working across scientists, designers, product, and external partners. Strong translation skills between scientific nuance and product reality
  • Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable presenting in cross-functional and leadership settings

Nice to have:

  • Advanced degree (M.S. or PhD) in Atmospheric Science, Meteorology, Oceanography, or a related field
  • Experience with meteorological data formats (GRIB, NetCDF, HDF, Zarr) and geospatial processing
  • Experience building consumer or outdoor vertical products (sailing, kiteboarding, golf, ski, hiking, fishing, agriculture)
  • Operationalisation of ML or AI-derived forecast products (downscaling, ensemble post-processing, emulators)
  • Familiarity with LLM observability and routing infrastructure (LiteLLM, Langfuse)
  • Experience working alongside designers and PMs in a labs/experimentation context
TWCo Benefits/Perks:
  • Flexible Time Off program
  • Hybrid work model
  • Variety of medical insurance options including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
  • Benefits effective day 1 of employment include competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement, national health, dental, and vision plans
  • Progressive family plan benefits
  • An opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
  • Impactful work in a collaborative environment

Create a Job Alert

Interested in building your career at The Weather Company? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.

Apply for this job

*

indicates a required field

Resume/CV*

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Cover Letter

Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf

Education

Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...
Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification

For government reporting purposes, we ask candidates to respond to the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.

As set forth in The Weather Company’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Select...
Select...
Race & Ethnicity Definitions

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.

Select...

Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability

Form CC-305
Page 1 of 1
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026

Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Select...

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.