Meteorological Data Engineer
Listed on 2026-01-15
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Engineering
Software Engineer, Data Engineer
About the Company
Established in 2015, Tru Weather Solutions, Inc. () is a leader in providing micro-weather data, analytics, infrastructure, services, and risk-management products across the uncrewed aircraft system (UAS), advanced air mobility (AAM), and ground autonomous system industries and engages with the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Defense (DoD), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and a variety of worldwide commercial and governmental organizations.
The company employs aviation meteorologists, software engineers, project managers, atmospheric scientists, and others to help clients improve the success, safety, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of their operations, logistics, and workflow. Tru Weather is a scaling start‑up company on the leading edge of weather system innovation and service disruption. Team members must have the ability to work in an agile, fast‑paced work environment, multi‑task, and rapidly respond to emerging opportunities critical to new intellectual property generation and revenue generation.
the Role
As a Meteorological Data Engineer, you will develop, test, and scale Tru Weather’s data platform in collaboration with the Engineering, Operations, and Science teams.
This position is a full‑time role and follows a hybrid (combined in‑office (if located in Albany, NY) + remote) work style. Preferred location is at Tru Weather’s Research and Development Center in Albany, NY. The position reports to the Director of Engineering.
Responsibilities- Design, implement, and maintain Tru Weather’s data warehouse platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, and reproducibility across multiple teams and projects.
- Be responsible for data governance, naming standards, and metadata standards across the company’s data infrastructure.
- Build, test, and maintain processing workflows for existing and new measurement streams, improving automated QA/QC processes to check, validate and audit data.
- Stand up a secure, accessible cloud database with reliable ingestion, transformation, and retrieval paths; implement data security, backup, and cost controls.
- Integrate external, industrial‑grade cloud systems with Tru Weather’s data infrastructure.
- Package data pipelines and tools as maintainable, production‑ready projects with CLI entry points, CI Output, unit tests, clear documentation and SOPs.
- Partner with the Operations and Science teams to automate and deliver metrics dashboards with real‑time forecast verification and analytics.
- Participate in code reviews, establish engineering standards, and promote best practices in software and data engineering.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally to translate research and prototype efforts into reliable, operational sinful data products.
- Undergraduate degree in earth science or computer science.
- 1‑3 years of development experience in Python using version control systems like Git Hub, Git Lab, or similar.
- Familiarity with SQL; comfortable with schema design and time‑series data storage options.
- Experience working with meteorological or atmospheric datasets (e.g., model output, observations, gridded data).
- Knowledge of common geospatial data types: both raster (GeoTIFF/COG/ZARR/NetCDF/GRIB) and vector (Geo Parquet/SHP/GeoJSON/others).
- Pragmatic about data infrastructure and deployment strategies; rigorous about testing, security, documentation, and clear communication.
- Hands‑on experience in data engineering, software engineering, or equivalent technical roles working with meteorological observations and forecasting models.
- _should_ handling aviation weather products and other weather observation types beyond surface weather stations, including pilot reports, radar, satellite, ground‑based profilers, and mobile platforms.
- Experience with cloud and high‑performance computing platforms.
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment and meet deliverables, with short‑term deadlines and many simultaneous projects.
- Takes the initiative, demonstrates results, operates as a jeunesible, practices high empathy, and is curious.
- Salary for this role is based on experience and education.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with 90% of the premiums for employee coverage paid by Tru Weather.
- Paid vacation, sick time, 7 company holidays, and 3 personal days annually.
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