Mathematical Scientist

Position Summary

Research and develop new methodologies to apply statistical analysis, scoring, and correction techniques to our Numerical Weather Prediction forecasts.   The position will take an active role in helping design neural network, SVM, ARMA, or other statistical correction models to improve the accuracy of Weather Central’s proprietary forecasts for renewable energy customers.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Enjoy finding hidden relationships in datasets.
• Earned an advanced degree in Applied Statistics, Mathematical Finance, Econometrics, or other discipline related to Time-Series Analysis and Forecasting
• When you talk of improving the cost of the system… you’re not talking about buying cheaper hard drives.
• Excited to research, recommend, and implement statistical post process correction techniques to our proprietary wind speed forecast.
• Get excited when you hear “Petabytes of Data”
• Would be ready to actively engage the worldwide wind energy forecasting research community and ready to publish new findings.
• Comfortable with NoSQL database techniques such as key/value and map reduce.
• Can demonstrate mastery of scientific computing packages such as R, MATLAB, SAS, Scilab, Octave, etc.
• Have 1-2 years commercial or academic experience developing predictive models using neural networks, support vector machines, or other statistical techniques.
• Familiarity with Meteorology a plus, but not required.
• Want to improve the world.

About Us – The Enterprise Team at Weather Central

• Small, growing startup team of developers, meteorologists, and mathematicians tasked with applying Big DATA to weather sensitive industries such as renewable energy and personal insurance.
• Based in beautiful Madison, WI, supporting an exciting college atmosphere, all season outdoor activities, interesting politics, and of course Wisconsin Badger sporting events. Madison and surrounding communities routinely rank among the Top 10 places to live in the United States.
• Have a unique opportunity to be a key member of a team building new products from the ground up.

  
  

  The information on this posting has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

  Weather Central provides exclusive weather forecast and analysis data, imagery and applied software to industry. Our focus is on reducing weather related risk and uncertainty for insurers, utilities, construction firms and other weather sensitive industries. Weather Central – Putting Weather to Work™

  The company enjoys a great casual work environment, offers an excellent compensation and benefits package, and the opportunity to be a part of a highly skilled, motivated, and talented team. We are an equal opportunity employer and value the diversity of all our employees.

  To Apply:
  Please, email your resume, cover letter, salary expectations to jobs@wxc.com. Please, put code: MS - 25 in the subject line.

  Weather Central, LP
  401 Charmany Drive
  Madison, Wisconsin 53719

  Weather Central LP., founded in 1974 by broadcasters and meteorologists, is the leader in providing professional on-air, online, and print weather systems and forecasting utilizing dynamic weather graphics, precise forecast models and data, and patented technology. More than 500 customers worldwide enjoy the benefits of Weather Central’s attention to detail and insight about serving their total weather graphics needs. Products and services available from Weather Central, and its affiliated companies - MyWeather and WCInteractive - are: :LIVE™ , NBC Weather Plus, and 3D:LIVE™ weather presentation systems, ESP:LIVE™ Exclusive Storm Prediction system, A.D.O.N.I.S. FutureCast® and A.D.O.N.I.S. MicroCast® proprietary forecast models, MetroVision™ forecast visualization tool, WxWarn2™ severe weather crawl system, Personal Microcast and Live Online individualized, online weather information and forecast products, and ScreenWRITER® and SportsWRITER® interactive news and sports presentation systems.  An equal opportunity employer.