Founding Atmospheric Engineer

About the roleAs the Founding Atmospheric Engineer at Sorcerer you’ll own our entire weather forecasting stack end to end. Build NWP and ML models, assimilate unique balloon observations, deploy in the cloud, validate against real‑world data, and help close new customers.ResponsibilitiesDesign, train/build, and deploy weather forecasting models (both NWP and ML).End-to-end ownership including deployment on cloud infrastructureWork directly with the founders to scope pilots, craft demos, and connect forecast skill to customer value.Develop and operate a DA pipeline that blends Sorcerer balloon observations with other data sources.Define and maintain evaluation: backtesting, real‑time monitoring, benchmark baselines.Hire and lead the weather team as we scale.Required Experience6+ years of Professional Atmospheric Science experienceExpertise in open source numeric weather models (WRF, MPAS, etc.), and experience running ML models (GraphCast, Anemoi, etc.)Strong software engineering skills (Git, Python, etc.)Excellent communicator, comfortable with customer‑facing workHave extensive experience managing cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)Succeed with a high level of autonomyLocationThis is an in-office role at our HQ in SOMA, San Francisco.