Weather Instruments & Observations Scientist
Job Summary
Established in 2015, TruWeather Solutions, Inc (https://truweathersolutions.com/ ) is poised to be a leading provider of weather data analytics and innovative weather risk management products in the US market and beyond. TruWeather’s customized translation of real-time and predictive weather data into discreet workflow decision insights will sharpen resource scheduling, planning, and mission execution. This results in safer, more productive operations and business success.
TruWeather Solutions is leading Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) projects with an aim to design and develop a Weather Sensing Infrastructure and provide high quality, tailored weather data and information to enable safe and efficient operations at expanded scales.
This position focuses on weather observation instruments and the application of their data to analysis and prediction of weather phenomena that impact AAM operations. As a matter of course, the resulting implementations build upon TruWeather’s collection of intellectual property (IP).
This position follows a flexible, hybrid (combined in-office + remote) work style, with regular office time at the TruWeather’s Research and Development Center in Albany, NY. The position reports to the TruWeather Solutions Director of Science.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Conduct scientific research and development efforts aimed at advancing the science of meteorology and its application to UAS and AAM.
- Assist in maintaining the Science R&D roadmap to ensure alignment with the company’s vision and goals.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to envision, design, develop, and implement software for innovative UAS and AAM commercial products.
- Perform instrument selection and deployment design to meet specific objectives.
- Direct the collection and archival of live data.
- Perform data mining of external observation data sources, both live and archived.
- Evaluate weather instruments’ performance.
- Provide subject matter expertise and guidance to support business development and growth initiatives, including project proposals and execution.
- Communicate scientific findings and insights to technical and non-technical audiences through reports, presentations, and other communication channels.
- Document newly developed technologies to protect Intellectual Property.
- Assist in recruiting and hiring high-quality teammates, with an emphasis on diversity.
Education Requirements
Graduate degree in atmospheric science (focus on weather instruments or related field) with 5 years of experience in applied research and development.
Minimum Experience and Skills Requirements
- Experience with a large variety of weather instruments and observations, both in-situ and remote sensing
- Construction and use of database structures for voluminous and disparate data
- Quality control and aggregation of weather observation data
- Interaction with large data sets in a database system
- Understanding of probability and statistics, particularly for derivation of uncertainty (i.e., error variance) in weather observations
- Excellent coding skills with proficiency in a modern program, preferably Python
- Efficient and effective report writing
- Analysis of error variance in a variety of weather observation
Preferred Experience and Skills
- Experience with cloud computing
- Analysis of error variance in a variety of weather observation types
- Verification of deterministic and probabilistic weather forecasts
- Experience with cloud and high-performance computing platforms
General Skills
- Ability to work independently
- Solid interpersonal and communication abilities, both written and oral
- Creativity in problem solving
- Result-oriented and flexible
