Research Associate, AfriClimate AI
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Johannesburg, South Africa· Remote · 24 days agoDescription
The Research Associate will support AfriClimate AI’s applied research portfolio by contributing to the development, fine-tuning, and validation of AI-driven climate and weather modelling tools. Working closely with the research team, the successful candidate will play a hands-on role in data preparation, model development and evaluation, ensuring that research outputs are robust, open and relevant for African contexts.
Research & Development:
The Research Associate will support AfriClimate AI’s applied research portfolio by contributing to the development, fine-tuning, and validation of AI-driven climate and weather modelling tools. Working closely with the research team, the successful candidate will play a hands-on role in data preparation, model development and evaluation, ensuring that research outputs are robust, open and relevant for African contexts.
Research & Development:
- Assist in designing, implementing, and testing AI-based climate and weather forecasting methodologies.
- Preprocess and manage large geospatial datasets (e.g., observational data, satellite products, reanalysis datasets).
- Support the development of benchmarking frameworks for model evaluation, including skill scores, bias correction and uncertainty quantification.
- Contribute to the setup and maintenance of MLOps pipelines for training, deployment and monitoring of AI models.
- Collaborate with team members on documentation, and reproducibility of workflows.
Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing:
- Work with meteorological agencies, universities and international partners on joint research tasks.
- Contribute to open-source datasets, code repositories and technical documentation.
- Support the preparation of research outputs, including peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, and policy briefs.
- Present results in internal and external meetings (workshops and conferences).
- Company
- AfriClimate AI
- Employment Type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 2-5 years
- Location
- South Africa, Johannesburg (remote)