Machine Learning Engineer for Climate and Weather Forecasting Applications (m/f)

Zurich Airport or Locarno (and working from home) | 80-100%

This is how you can contribute

• Drive innovation by evaluating and prototyping emerging ML and MLOps technologies through hands-on proof of concepts
• Drive the integration and operationalization of a state-of-the-art ML weather forecasting system within MeteoSwiss and the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) Destination Earth, bringing Anemoi-based models to production readiness and benchmarking them across leading EuroHPC supercomputing centres
• Co-develop new forecasting approaches alongside data scientists and meteorologists at MeteoSwiss and partner institutions across Europe
• Build and evolve the ML tooling, services, and workflows that underpin reliable, production-grade forecasting systems in cloud and high-performance computing environments such as the Swiss National Supercomputer Centre (CSCS)

This makes you unique

• University degree (at least ISCED 7) in computer science, applied mathematics, data science or a related field
• Experience with MLOps, container technologies, as well as cloud platforms and HPC environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, SLURM)
• Very good programming skills in Python and familiarity with the PyTorch ML framework
• Dedicated personality with a creative, problem-solving mindset and strong communication skills
• Active knowledge of one official language, passive knowledge of a second official language and very good knowledge of English

In a nutshell

As an ML Engineer (m/w) for Weather and Climate, you will bring cutting-edge forecasting models to operational scale across Europe, prototyping new ML and MLOps approaches and helping shape the next generation of weather forecasting.

Our benefits

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the successful Swiss model and work for the public good.
• Embracing diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we draw on our expertise and contribute different perspectives.
• Staying healthy at work We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

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The Swiss Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss is the Swiss National Weather Service. We record and forecast weather and climate in Switzerland and thus make a sustainable contribution to the well-being of the community and to the benefit of industry, science and the environment.

The offices of the Federal Department of Home Affairs (FDHA) take systematic measures to ensure a good working environment and the health of their staff. This commitment has earned them the Friendly Work Space label.

Additional information

Questions about the position

Gabriela Aznar
+41 58 460 97 11

Questions about applying

Nicole Gianotti
+41 58 460 95 04