The Climate Corporation (San Francisco, Seattle, INTERN/H1B) -
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The Climate Corporation's mission is to help all the world's people and
businesses manage and adapt to climate change. We use a combination of weather
monitoring, agronomic modeling, and weather simulation to provide real-time
pricing and purchasing of customizable weather insurance to farmers in the
United States.
Climate's technical staff numbers around 80, and we're hiring full-time
employees and interns across many teams as we expand efforts on a new class of
decision support tools for growers. Work is split across groups focusing on web
applications for farmers and agents, risk and insurance policy management,
internal platform and data services, and scientific modeling and research, with
roles for:
1. Software engineering generalists with solid CS fundamentals, particularly
anyone interested in building (i) entirely new, large-scale distributed data
services for scientific computing (we use Clojure); and (ii) web applications
(Rails, Python, Javascript, and iOS) used by farmers to manage weather risk.
2. Quantitative researchers in statistics/ML, stochastic optimization, remote
sensing, atmospheric physics, and agronomics. Our goal is to forecast
statistical distributions of crop yield for any piece of arable land,
synthesizing satellite images, digital elevation models, weather data,
agricultural statistics, and geological surveys into multiscale models that
underly our data services.
3. Experienced technical team leads, operations engineers, product managers,
and designers to pull all this together into a compelling product.
The scale and interdiscplinary nature of the work drive a lot of
cross-collaboration within the company, supported by a pressing need to build
durable solutions to some very important problems.
Competitive salary, excellent benefits, stock options, etc. Our 25% time is
lumped into two-week sabbaticals. The usual details about these positions are
here:
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I write Clojure for a small scientific software engineering team building
Climate's agricultural yield models. If you're interested or have any
questions, send me an email at REDACTED_EMAIL with [feb2014-hn] in the
subject heading.