Senior Scientist in Data Assimilation

We're hiring for a Senior Scientist in Data Assimilation based in Exeter HQ with hybrid remote working.  The starting salary will be £37418.00 with opportunities to progress to £41159.00 over time. New joiners to the Met Office will start on the salary band minima.

The Met Office has embarked on an exciting programme, to redesign its operational forecasting capability for future high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. The current Met Office Data Assimilation (DA) system is not expected to be efficient across the range of possible alternative HPC solutions likely to be available on the 2025 timescale. The new software is being developed within the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI) framework from the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA).

You will work in the DA Methods team is part of the Satellite and Surface Assimilation (SSA) section of Weather Science at the Met Office. The Met Office is at the forefront of DA applications in operational Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and it is an exciting time to be working in this area. Perhaps the greatest challenge for modern DA is the need to consider how these complex DA algorithms will be run efficiently on the potentially radically different supercomputer architectures needed to maintain progress over the next decade.

Job Purpose: We are seeking scientists to join our team of experts and contribute to the research and development of advanced data assimilation techniques for initialising operational forecast models on the next generation of supercomputers.

Click Apply and attach your CV and a Cover Letter which evidences how you meet the essential criteria.

Closing date 27/02/2022 at 23:59 with interviews commencing from 14/03/2022. Our interviews are taking place remotely via Microsoft Teams.