Young Investigator, Climate Modeling

The role

You will develop an AI-powered physics-informed hybrid climate model to improve multidecadal forecasts. You will lead the design and evaluation of training and testing cases and collaborate on model improvements.

What you will do

• Select, design and evaluate NeuralGCM+ training and testing cases
• Conceive and implement NeuralGCM+ model improvements
• Present results at major AI and climate modeling conferences and in peer-reviewed publications
• Perform open-source code development
• Mentor interns

Required qualifications

• Substantial experience building and deploying a relevant ML application in a practical or academic research setting
• Fluent in Python
• Collaborative coding practices
• Ph. D. in computer or computational science, applied mathematics/statistics, or atmospheric science or a related geophysical science
• At least one accepted conference paper or peer-reviewed first-authored publication making extensive use of ML
• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time
• Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand
• Ability to observe details at close range
• Can work under deadlines

Nice to have

• Formal training and/or practical experience with physically-based atmospheric, oceanic, or related model development
• Experience writing machine learning code in JAX
• Formal graduate-level ML coursework

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and an employee assistance program
• Health savings account plan
• Healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending account plans
• 401k plan
• $125 per month to assist with commuting or internet expenses
• $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses
• Up to ten sick days per year
• Up to seven personal days per year
• Up to 20 vacation days per year
• Twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Annual bonuses

Before you apply

• Applications will begin being reviewed on October 28, 2026

About the company

Ai2 is a Seattle based non-profit AI research institute founded in 2014 by the late Paul Allen. Its mission is building breakthrough AI to solve the world’s biggest problems.