The Center for Climate Systems Modeling (C2SM) at ETH Zurich, in collaboration with the Federal Office of Meteorology (MeteoSwiss), is leading an initiative to enhance climate projections and weather forecasting by adapting numerical models to leverage new and emerging computing architectures.
Project background
MeteoSwiss plays a crucial role in delivering climate information and weather forecasts, thereby contributing sustainably to the well-being of the population and providing benefits to the economy, science, and the environment. In view of improving the way the general public, scientist and third party applications access the meteorological data, and in view of Open Government Data, new APIs, workflows and data processing framework are being developed.
Job description
We are seekinga motivated Software Engineer to join the high performance and cloud computing team at MeteoSwiss. In this position, you will:
Contribute to the development of a high-performance and scalable framework for data services and processing within the production workflow for high-resolution weather prediction.
Deliver forecast products to millions of users every day.
Work with applications running on distributed systems; main programming languages and technologies include Python, Numpy, Xarray, and C++.
Ensure the data processing framework remains highly performant, scalable, and cloud-native.
Utilize relevant technologies such as containers, object stores, and Kubernetes.
Be versatile, display leadership qualities, and show enthusiasm for tackling problems and contributing to maintenance across the full workflow.
Help push technology forward within a rapidly evolving environment.
Profile
MSc or PhD in Computational Science, Computer Science, or a related field
Experience in software development
Background in high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud environments
Comfortable working in Linux/Unix environments
Advantageous qualifications: Development of parallel applications
Strong Python knowledge
Experience with large software designs
Interest in numerical weather prediction
Willingness to work in large, production-level software infrastructures
Solid software engineering skills
Interest in DevOps
Personal qualities: Open-minded
Team-oriented
Goal-driven
Enjoy working in diverse environments
We offer
We offer an engaging position which provides the opportunity to impact weather forecasting products disseminated to millions of users, work on leading edge software and hardware technologies, to collaborate with internationally renowned research groups and supercomputing centers, and to develop production quality software products, within a motivated team.
The position is limited to two years and available as of October 2025. The working place will be at MeteoSwiss (Zurich airport, easily accessible by public transport).
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