Issued on the 25th of September, 2026

I heard whispers amongst the meteorology community about this thing called energy trading. This one meteorologist used to talk about making hundreds of thousands of dollars. This was at a point when I was making below $50K and barely getting by, so this was an escape fantasy for me. Teleconnections came up along with long range forecasting, and anomalies and all of these terms that I not only didn't use but had really never heard about. You may think this is crazy, but I was a short-term forecaster and that's all I did. Until I was asked to do more.

Have you ever made an avalanche forecast? It's super challenging. Especially in areas with sparse data.

Have you ever been to Ningunsaw Provincial Park in British Columbia? If you look it up the first image you see might be a bear standing in the trees. This is how I pictured it too. In fact many of the places I had to forecast in British Columbia are also where there are many bears. Bears aside, It just so happens that this is where I was asked to make an avalanche forecast for the BC Ministry of Transportation. Only problem was there was so little surface data that all I really had was upper level charts, model data, and IR satellite as I made the forecast at night at five in the morning right at the end of my shift.

How you make this type of forecast is to have a strong understanding of how snow accumulates on mountains and how and why avalanches occur and then to predict when you will see the conditions that will cause a risky environment. While all I could think about at 5 am was trying not to face plant into my desk, little did I know this was the start of my path into long-range forecasting and teleconnections which ultimately helped me get into energy trading meteorology.

The Jobs

Title: Energy Meteorologist

Company: AEMO

Work Location: Australia

Pay: Not Given

Degree:

• Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology or Atmospheric Science.

Experience

• Experience (no amount given)

Key Skills or Knowledge You Need

• Proven experience in a forecasting, operation, analytical, or market-related role.
• Strong ability to lead, support, and mentor others, and work collaboratively across multiple projects.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in high-pressure environments with evolving technical challenges.
• Strong working knowledge of data analysis and statistical modelling techniques, including experience using tools such as SQL, Power BI, Excel, R, Python, Databricks, and forecasting platforms such as MetrixIDR or similar.
• Experience preparing high-quality reports and presentations and communicating technical information to a broad range of stakeholders, including control room operators, market participants and senior management.
• Clear and confident communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to translate technical insights into operational and stakeholder-relevant advice.

Who Should Apply?

It doesn't say anything specific about being an Australian citizen, so if you are not, please don't not apply. Reach out to the company and find out what the visa qualifications are, or just apply and see what happens. Australia has a market trading program, but it seems to be more real-time trading and no day ahead or futures. Keep in mind that Australia is almost as large as the United States, and they have an eastern trading region including New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia. This job is listed as Melbourne, but you can also work in other region capitals. There is also trading in Western Australia based in Perth.

AEMO is one of the grid operators that makes sure there is enough power to meet demand. This would be similar to PJM in the US. They are using spot prices as the primary market mechanism. There are also contracts a company can use to hedge against higher prices. Contracts are made directly with the generators. This is a very similar job to any other energy meteorologist role where you are using various programming to develop ways to display the weather risk to the electricity grid. They also need you to communicate this risk to the operations personnel.

You should have experience and want to live in Australia, which can be very far away if you are coming from North or South America, Europe, or even China or Japan.

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Title: Wildfire Scientist

Company: AON

Work Location: Boston, MA - Hybrid or Remote

Pay: $115,000 to $140,000

Benefits: See Job Listing

Degree:

• M.S. or Ph.D. in wildfire science, fire behavior, environmental science, applied geoscience, atmospheric science, a closely related field (required) or equivalent years of industry experience

Years of Experience:

• Direct experience with wildfire modeling.

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Operational or research use of tools such as FARSITE, FlamMap, BehavePlus, or similar fire behavior models, and/or
• Experience developing or working with custom spread models (cellular automata, level‑set methods, or other numerical approaches).
• Demonstrated understanding of wildland–urban interface (WUI) fire behavior,
• Strong programming / scripting skills, preferably in R and/or Python (required).
• Experience working with geospatial data and tools (e.g., raster/vector data, GDAL, ArcGIS, QGIS, sf/terra in R, or equivalent) (required).
• Experience with numerical or environmental models in an HPC or cloud environment (preferred).
• Solid analytical and statistical skills, including working with large datasets and time series (required).
• Experience with SQL or other database tools (preferred).
• Excellent technical writing and presentation skills (required).
• Experience with catastrophe modeling or risk modeling (preferred).

About the Company

AON has offices in Boston in the US and Prague in Europe. They are hiring often for insurance related modeling jobs and for wildfire risk/modeling roles. They have good benefits.

Who Should Apply?

This is a very specific job with very specific skills required. If you are data scientist with modeling experience you have a chance of getting an interview, but they really want someone with those skills plus wildfire expertise. If you read through the requirements you can see the job is focused on wildfire behavior and maps, and so you are probably creating models showing how wildfire behavior changes in different weather conditions and extreme events. This information may be then fed into the catatrophe models or used alongside to create some sort of risk profiles. I think these kind of jobs sound very interesting if you have this background.

About the Location

Boston is expensive right in the city, but this job allows you to work remote or hybrid, so you could live elsewhere and only go into the office occasionally. Despite being expensive, it is a fun city with plenty to do if you live in the city.

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Title: Director - Catastrophic Analytics

Company: Howden RE

Work Location: Edina, MN (Minneapolis, MN)

Pay: $130,000 to $190,000 USD/annual

Degree:

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Finance or similar analytical major.

Years of Experience:

• 8+ years experience in catastrophe modeling and risk management

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• High level of proficiency in data analysis, manipulation, and visualization tools and program languages such as SQL, Excel, R, Python, Power BI, and ArcGIS.
• Experience with cat modeling software (i.e. Verisk Touchstone, RMS RiskLink) and an understanding of model methodology, practical uses, and limitations.
• Knowledge of property insurance and reinsurance; ARe designation is a plus
• Legally authorized to work in the US.

Who Should Apply?

You should have a background in data science. It should be mentioned if you have a Master's or PhD, you can likely sub your work as experience for this role. If your studies were related to this sort of risk modeling, you could apply with less actual experience.

About the Location

A suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Brutally cold and snowy in the Winter, warm, sometimes hot with severe storms in the Summer. You should love cold weather. If you like ice fishing that might help you make friends.

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Title: Head of MetOcean

Company: Vattenfall

Work Location: London, Amsterdam, or Kolding, Denmark

Pay: Not given

Closing Date: 6 Oct 2026

Degree:

• Bachelor's degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, Climate Science, Environmental Science, Physics, or a related field.

Years of Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in leadership, effect communication, decision-making, and engaging with stakeholders.

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Experience leading, coaching and developing specialist or technical teams.
• The ability to create clarity, inspire collaboration and enable others to perform at their best.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience influencing decisions and building alignment across functions and disciplines.
• Experience gained within offshore wind, marine industries, energy, environmental services, large-scale infrastructure projects or a similar complex environment.
• Experience managing programmes, budgets, consultants and strategic initiatives.
• A passion for continuous improvement, innovation and developing people.

Preferred or Additional Skills

• MetOcean studies and assessments.
• Marine environmental analysis and forecasting.
• Offshore construction support and workability analysis.
• Risk management and uncertainty reduction.
• Digitalisation, advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making.
• Forecasting tools, modeling approaches or AI-enabled solutions.

Who Should Apply?

You should be a leader in whatever field you are in, but you should have also worked around marine or oceanography, or in renewables with offshore wind power. This will help you the most because the role is leading the team that helps build offshore wind farms. This role is not about hiding in the shadows, you are out in front engaging with people in other departments and stakeholders. This is not a forecasting role, but more a research and leadership role.

Vattenfall has many meteorologists and is active in marine and energy, and the marine portion I believe is more about renewables.

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Title: Meteorological Forecaster

Company: Malta International Airport

Work Location: Luqa, Malta

Pay: Not Given

Degree:

• Bachelor's degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, Climate Science, Environmental Science, Physics, or a related field. This is what a BIP-M essentially is.

Years of Experience:

• Experience in making aviation forecasts.

Key Skills or Knowledge: (This is my list)

• A track record of experience working within a Meteorological Office providing aviation weather Forecasts in accordance with WMO Doc No.49: Technical Regulations, Vol. II, Part I, Section 6: Forecasts
  • You should know how to asses weather conditions and put this together into an aviation forecast such as a TAF.
• Must possess excellent skills in interpreting various types of data, including Weather Model outputs, Satellite images, and Radar images. This ability is crucial for understanding and predicting weather patterns accurately -
  • You need to be able to be the go to person for all aviation meteorology questions or concerns among airport staff and pilots.
• Should be capable of working effectively under pressure, as meteorological forecasts often require timely and accurate responses
  • Sometimes weather changes suddenly for more than one area and you must priortise and provide critical weather information in a timely manner to different people. A thunderstorm moving toward the airport requires a specific type of focus, but you could also see a fog bank, or a wind shift, and that may require alerting different people. You may even experience a pilot having a mechanical issue in-flight but on approach or departure and this issue may change their ability to fly through certain types of weather, especially icing.

Who Should Apply?

My experience working at an airline put me into many situations where multiple people may ask questions or ask for an amended forecast or a dispatcher may ask to put me on a call with a pilot in flight. I've helped with situations involving volcanic eruptions and ash clouds, I've helped pilots that lost the ability to de-icing during the flight, or private jets that had high-paying passengers that didn't like turbulence while flying into southern France during the Mistral season. Sometimes thunderstorms form right off the end of the runway, put out an outflow boundary and cause the airport to change the arrival runways.

Malta being an island in the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by land that can get very hot in the Summer, meaning thunderstorms and strong winds, plus clouds of dust from Africa would make this a challenging role.

You should apply if you want to work in aviation, hate cold weather, want to live on an island, live near Italy, or just want an exciting start to your career.

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Title: Meteorologist

Company: UBIMET

Work Location: Vienna, Austria

Pay: €34,462/year, much higher based on experience.

Degree:

• Completed studies in meteorology (Bachelor's and/or Master's degree)

Experience:

• 0-2 years

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Ability to analyze the atmosphere, satellite, radar, and observations and then create a forecast.
• Develop weather stories that can be used to create a blog post and shared with customers and the media.
• Ability to assess the real-time weather conditions and issue severe weather warnings.
• Excel at communicating weather forecasts to customers in a way they can easily understand.
• Verify forecasts and use this to learn and improve on future forecasts.
• Fluency in German and can speak English.
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Who Should Apply?

If you speak German first off. Then, if you are fresh out of university you should apply or if you are early career or entry level. This company has a meteorology team and has been around for a long time. The pay is low if you are right out of school, but increases substantially with more experience. They have multiple offices, but this job is in their Austrian location. This is a great job for early in your career.

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Title: Senior Meteorologist

Company: The Weather Company

Work Location: Phoenix, Arizona

Pay: Not Given

Degree:

• Bachelor’s degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, or a related discipline.

Years of Experience:

• 5+ years of operational weather forecasting experience, establishing yourself as a seasoned forecaster capable of confident, independent decision-making.

Key Skills or Knowledge:

• Demonstrated a high degree of communication and people interaction skills, with a proven track record of translating complex weather data into actionable business insights for non-technical audiences. They put this at the top because it is very important. You need to be able to convey actionable weather insights to the client.
• Showcased a willingness and proven ability to work a highly flexible schedule, including strictly required weekends, holidays, and varied shift hours to support 24/7 operations. You will be working any and all shifts.
• Proven ability to thrive in an isolated, solo-shift environment while maintaining high accuracy, situational awareness, and productivity. You won't have anyone to fall back on and will be the authority on the weather with this client.
• Gained specialized experience forecasting road-level hazards (e.g., flash floods, snow, ice, black ice, dust storms, fog). You should know that flash flooding is a big deal and where in the Phoenix is more a risk than others. You should know which routes north of Phoenix see snow and ice. Haboobs are a common annual experience in the monsoon season. You should understand the dynamics of forecasting where dust will occur, how long visibility is unsafe for driving, and when it will end.
• Developed expertise in urban forecasting and microclimate analysis (highly preferred). You need to develop down to the mile marker where flash flooding, snow, dust will occur.
• Committed to relocating to Phoenix, Arizona, to support the client on-site (relocation assistance is anticipated).

Who Should Apply?

To me this client sounds like a regional trucking company. The reason is, the addition of snow and ice which do not occur in Phoenix, but definitely occur on I-17 north of Phoenix heading to Flagstaff and towards The Grand Canyon. I-40 running West to East across northern Arizona is known to have snow and ice issues. Other smaller routes around Sedona and Payson can also see snow and ice. Believe me, I have been in Sedona during a snowstorm and there were not any snow plows for a while which means the roads remain icy for long periods. Flash flooding and dust storms can occur with the same storm, regardless they are both major driving hazards.

You don't have to have road weather experience to do this job.

You do have to be able to develop a sense of the microclimates, develop case studies and pattern recognition guides in order to confidently make a forecast, on your own, and stand by it and then share it with the entire fleet. You have to be able to make forecasts that have several parts such as the warm and cold sector of a storm and how it will affect different routes. It would be very helpful if you had a sense of road elevations, exposure points, frost pockets and more for each mile of road.

Since I love Phoenix and have done road weather forecasting this sounds very interesting to me. Although, this job is all year, so you will also have to be ok with temperatures in the 115 F / 46 C often, and it may be too hot to even swim during the day.

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Title: Senior Data Scientist for Extreme Weather

Company: Technosylva

Work Location: Spain - Remote

Pay: Not Given

Degree:

• Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Civil Engineering, Statistics, Data Science, or a related quantitative field strongly preferred.
• A master’s degree with substantial applied experience in weather-driven outage or infrastructure risk modeling will be considered.

Years of Experience:

• 5+ years of experience (academic or industry) applying statistical modeling and machine learning to grid reliability, storm outage prediction, or related energy-sector problems.

Key Skills or Knowledge:

• Experience working with utilities, ISOs/RTOs, or grid operators on weather-related operational forecasting is highly valued.
• Track record of peer-reviewed publications, patents, or deployed production models in outage prediction, wildfire risk, or extreme weather impacts.
• Strong grounding in machine learning methods (ensemble methods, neural networks, probabilistic models) and statistical modeling for spatio-temporal problems.
• Experience combining physics-based/mechanistic models with data-driven approaches for infrastructure failure prediction.
• Proficiency with geospatial data and tools (GeoPandas, ArcGIS or equivalent) and large multidimensional weather datasets.
• Advanced Python skills (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow or PyTorch) with the ability to write clean, well-documented, production-quality code; experience with R, SQL, or Julia is a plus.
• Ability to optimize model runtime and computational workflows for real-time operational use.

Preferred, but not required

• Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot agents, or similar) as a core part of daily development workflows—not just autocomplete, but delegating multi-step coding tasks to AI agents.
• Skilled at structuring work for AI agents: writing clear specifications, decomposing problems, and providing context so agents produce correct, maintainable code.
• Strong judgment in reviewing and validating agent-generated code, especially for scientific correctness in modeling pipelines.

Who Should Apply?

This is the second job I've posted from this company in the last month and while this job is in Spain, they have remote roles outside Spain that are similar. The main reason for this job is to develop machine learning models that help predict when the electricity grid will be impacted by extreme weather conditions. You are going to help their clients understand when the may need a PSPS or a grid shutoff, when to plan bringing staff in for extra hours, where they should deploy crews to fix the damage, and how to better manage the grid during weather events.

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Title: Air Quality Scientist

Company: State of Virginia

Work Location: Richmond, VA

Pay: $65,000 to $103,500/annual

Degree:

• Bachelor degree in physics, engineering, environmental sciences, or related disciplines

Years of Experience:

• 1 to 3 years of experience or having a Master's with no experience

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Knowledge of principles of meteorology (atmospheric science) and environmental science.
• Knowledge of Federal and State Air Pollution regulations pertaining to air quality modeling and air quality forecasting.
• Understanding of the relationship between meteorological conditions, air pollution data and air quality models that can be applied to evaluating air quality impacts on the environment.
• Demonstrates general understanding of photochemical and dispersion models used for State Implementation Plans and air permitting.
• Ability to install and maintain air quality models on Linux and Windows operating systems is preferred.
• Familiarity with statistical analyses required to evaluate air quality modeling results, and the capability to run software scripts in R and Python program languages is preferred.

Who Should Apply?

This job would be perfect for someone with a Master's degree, especially studying at a Virginia university so you would know the state policies already. However, anyone could apply and learn the regulations and apply weather knowledge to the position. Really, if you think you might be interested in air pollution or air quality meteorology this may worth a shot. I couldn't find years of experience or education requirements, so I added what I thought it could be.

About the Location

Richmond is a lively town in southeast Virginia, about 2.5 hours South of Washington DC, 2.5 hours from the beach and 1.5 hours from the mountains where you can see waterfalls, go rock climbing and hiking, camp, and in the Winter go downhill or cross country skiing. I was just in Richmond for a concert and so I can say it has a good setup for concerts and food options and efficient Ubers.

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Title: Senior Emergency Planning Program Manager

Company: National Grid

Work Location: Northboro, MA (Boston area)

Pay: $76,709.00 - $115,064.00 Annually

Degree:

• Bachelor’s degree in Emergency Management or related field - Might be able to get around this with a meteorology degree and experience.

Years of Experience:

• 2-3+ years

Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)

• Ability to understand the theory behind emergency management policies and processes and demonstrate the ability to challenge existing processes and ways of working.
• Experience with leading cross-functional teams managing multiple and complex activities associated with program/project work.
• Demonstrates the ability to network and influence internally and externally and to develop successful, long-lasting business relationships / partnerships with others and seeks to understand and challenge business scenarios to the benefit of all parties.
• Must be able to work outside of normal business hours (holidays/nights/weekends) in response to emergencies.
• Must be able to travel overnight outside the normal work area.
• Valid driver’s license required with acceptable driving record that meets National Grid’s Safe Driver Policy.

Who Should Apply?

This is an energy leaning job and so you should have that sort of background or be solid in the emergency management skillset. This is one of those jobs where meteorology is not mentioned at all, and it's not because it's not useful to have, it's probably more likely that this job involves a lot of non-weather emergencies and most candidates are not going to come from a meteorology background. If you've ever worked around the emergency management associated with a chemical plant or maybe as a civilian or in the military around laboratories and potential toxic elements or waste, or even in actual power plants including nuclear, then this might be something you are good at.

My very first salary job after college was with a company that went into chemical plants and refineries to test emissions coming out of the stack. I could have followed that job to a career in air quality or in emergency management, based on the number of times we had to evacuate the facilities to some sort of gas leaking.

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Final Thoughts

One of the challenges of being an operational meteorologist or just a meteorologist in general is that you don't always know what other people need to hear about the weather to take action or make a decision.

As a meteorologist, you know what you know. You are the meteorology expert, even just starting out, you are going to have more knowledge of the weather than most customers. Your customers know what they know. They are the expert in whatever it is they do. Your job is to provide them with a weather forecast that is communicated in a way they can apply to their business operations right away. They should be able to get off a call with you and make a decision based on what you said.

Don't worry about what they may ask you on a call. As long as you go in prepared, take time to think about what they are asking, and rely on your expertise, you should be fine.

Good luck on the job search!