Your role

We are looking for a Research Software Engineer (A2) to work on the development of data‑infrastructure services to support Machine Learning (ML) within the European Union’s Destination Earth (DestinE) initiative.

ECMWF produces world‑leading scientific datasets. To enable the rapid growth of AI‑model use and training, we have developed prototypes such as Zarr‑FDB, which creates on‑demand, user‑defined views of data stored within our indexed data stores. In this role you will evolve and operationalise these prototypes into robust, user‑facing services and collaborate with production teams, researchers, and infrastructure providers to deliver scalable, high‑performance data access for ML training and DestinE digital twin output.

Your responsibilities

• Develop and support tools to handle meteorological data for ML training.
• Explore novel technologies and methodologies to improve ML data generation and acces...