WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in the atmosphere. Backed by Khosla and Pear VC.
About the role
Research to Operations pipelines — Our models serve real-time forecasts to customers with strict latency requirements. You'd own uptime end-to-end: build health monitoring, improve logging, diagnose failures across nodes. Inference scaling & compute strategy — We have an on-prem cluster but also use cloud providers, especially for production deployments. You'd evaluate cost/performance tradeoffs across cloud options as we scale, and also help manage growing on-prem resources for compute and storage.
What they're looking for
- Have experience running production ML systems — you’re not just good at fighting fires but also know how to build systems that don’t catch on fire
- Experience with large datasets
- Comfortable keeping up with fast-paced model releases and building reliable custom deployments for them
- Experience with PyTorch, Docker, cursed memory management, compression and debugging network saturation
- Affinity for systems and structure — you can counterbalance a research team’s natural state of chaos with well-organized infrastructure and clear processes
More about this role
WindBorne Systems is supercharging weather forecasts with a proprietary data source: a global constellation of next-generation smart weather balloons targeting critical atmospheric data. We design, manufacture, and operate our own balloons, using their observations to generate otherwise unattainable weather intelligence.
Our mission is to eliminate weather uncertainty and help humanity adapt to climate change—whether by predicting hurricanes or speeding the adoption of renewables. The founding team of Stanford engineers was named Forbes 2019 30 Under 30 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Khosla Ventures and Footwork VC.
WindBorne builds AI weather models that run 24/7, producing global forecasts every 20 minutes. Our research team is small and moves fast, but too much of their time goes to operationalization and infra firefighting instead of model development. We need someone to fix that.
Research to Operations pipelines — Our models serve real-time forecasts to customers with strict latency requirements. You'd own uptime end-to-end: build health monitoring, improve logging, diagnose failures across nodes.
Inference scaling & compute strategy — We have an on-prem...
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