Meteorologist

Carbon13; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Hybrid work

Customer exposure

Job summary

Carbon13 in London is seeking a meteorologist to be the data integrity expert for weather insights, ensuring data soundness and fair evaluations for customers. You will report to the CEO and work with the CTO; the scope is broad, from sourcing datasets to stress-testing methods and writing customer-facing reports.

The role blends science and business, offering equity options and hybrid work from London base.

Qualifications

• A degree in meteorology, atmospheric science or a closely related field.
• A working understanding of forecast verification and what makes an evaluation fair.
• Data analysis skills, ideally in Python, and comfort with APIs and large datasets.
• Clear, concise writing: our reports go straight to customers.
• Business orientation: the analysis has to help a customer make a decision.
• Initiative: you spot problems, propose fixes and follow through, and you ask for help when you need it.
• The right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Source and assess weather observation data: national weather station networks, third-party observation APIs and customer-side data.
• Ingest and quality-check forecast data from commercial weather providers via their APIs, working with the software team on pipelines.
• Maintain a fair verification methodology: hits, misses, false alarms, hit rate, overall skill (CSI), forecast tendency (bias) and warning lead across providers, thresholds and lead times.
• Develop clear, succinct methodology options that customers can understand and choose between.
• Analyse large datasets (millions of forecast rows per month) to produce provider evaluations.
• Prepare customer-facing reports in plain scientific language, stating confidence, sample sizes and limitations.
• Contribute to product decisions: which metrics we show and how we explain them.

Skills

Python

Forecast verification

Data analysis

APIs

Scientific writing

Business acumen

Initiative

Education

Bachelor's degree in meteorology or atmospheric science

Tools

APIs

Job description

Hybrid, London | Full time | £35,000 to £45,000 dependent on experience, plus equity options

The role

A role with a lot of responsibility. You will be the meteorologist inside the product: making sure the data we ingest is sound, the methodology is fair, and the evaluations we send to customers are correct and easy to understand. You will report to the CEO and work day to day with the CTO. The scope is broad: in a given week you might source a new observation dataset, stress-test a verification method, and write the report a customer uses to choose a provider.

What you will do

• Source and assess weather observation data: national weather station networks, third-party observation APIs and customer-side data
• Ingest and quality-check forecast data from commercial weather providers via their APIs, working with the software team on pipelines
• Maintain a fair verification methodology: hits, misses, false alarms, hit rate, overall skill (CSI), forecast tendency (bias) and warning lead across providers, thresholds and lead times
• Develop clear, succinct methodology options that customers can understand and choose between
• Analyse large datasets (millions of forecast rows per month) to produce provider evaluations
• Prepare customer-facing reports in plain scientific language, stating confidence, sample sizes and limitations
• Contribute to product decisions: which metrics we show and how we explain them

What you will need

• A degree in meteorology, atmospheric science or a closely related field
• A working understanding of forecast verification and what makes an evaluation fair
• Data analysis skills, ideally in Python, and comfort with APIs and large datasets
• Clear, concise writing: our reports go straight to customers
• Business orientation: the analysis has to help a customer make a decision
• Initiative: you spot problems, propose fixes and follow through, and you ask for help when you need it
• The right to work in the UK

Working here

This is a startup. Priorities shift and there is no playbook for most of what we do. In return you get real ownership from day one: your methodology decisions and reports go directly to customers, with a direct line to the founders.

What we offer

• c dependent on experience, plus participation in the company option pool
• Hybrid working from our London base
• Direct exposure to customers, providers and the commercial side of the business

No agencies, please.