Staff Software Engineer, Consumer Weather Science & AI

The Weather Company • Atlanta, GA

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Consumer Weather Science team is responsible for the scientific foundation of weather.com, the Weather Channel mobile apps, and labs.weather.com. This team incubates, validates, and graduates vertical consumer experiences (e.g., sailing, kiteboarding, golf, pollen, hiking, ski, fishing, gardening) into flagship products. As a member of this small, senior team of scientist-engineers, you will own the entire process from atmospheric model output to consumer experience, collaborating closely with product, design, and engineering teams across the company. Your role will involve owning the technical and scientific delivery of one or more consumer vertical experiences, translating model output, observations, and AI-derived insights into APIs, data services, and product integrations for hundreds of millions of users. Initially, your focus will be on outdoor sports, with the potential to expand into other verticals as the product pipeline evolves. You will act as the science-side product owner for these verticals, defining experiences with product and design partners, developing the data backend, coordinating model evaluation with research scientists, integrating LLM-driven content generation (AI briefings, condition explanations, alerts), and guiding experiences from experimentation to flagship status. This is a senior individual contributor position where you will define technical direction and represent the science and engineering perspective in cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with a proven ability to deliver projects from concept to production at consumer scale.
• Strong proficiency in Python within a Linux/Unix environment.
• Working knowledge of atmospheric science, NWP, or a closely related earth-science domain.
• Demonstrated daily use of AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, Cline).
• Experience with AWS services (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.
• Comfortable collaborating with scientists, designers, product managers, and external partners.
• Strong translation skills between scientific nuance and product reality.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present in cross-functional and leadership settings.

Nice To Haves

• TypeScript or JavaScript for front-end integration.
• 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).
• Experience with operationalization of ML or AI-derived forecast products (downscaling, ensemble post-processing, emulators).
• Familiarity with LLM observability and routing infrastructure (e.g., LiteLLM, Langfuse).
• Experience working alongside designers and PMs in a labs/experimentation context.

Responsibilities

• Science-side delivery of consumer vertical experiences from model output through production APIs to user-facing features.
• Develop data pipelines and APIs that serve forecast products derived from GRAF, MPAS, ECMWF, and TWC ML models to labs experiments and flagship apps.
• Implement LLM-driven content generation in consumer experiences, including prompt engineering, evaluation harnesses, and guardrails.
• Conduct reduction-to-practice work with research scientists.
• Manage labs-to-flagship graduations, partnering with product owners, designers, and front-end engineers.
• Utilize AI coding assistants and agentic workflows as part of the team's development process.

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off program
• Hybrid work model
• Variety of medical insurance options including a $0 cost premium employee coverage
• Competitive 401K match with no vesting requirement (effective day 1)
• National health, dental, and vision plans
• Progressive family plan benefits
• Opportunity to work for a global and industry-leading technology company
• Impactful work in a collaborative environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior