Aeolus Labs are looking for a performance engineer building a next-generation, differentiable atmospheric model for hurricane science and weather forecasting. Model will be based on Oceananigans.jl, experience with the Julia GPU ecosystem and MPI.jl is especially welcome. Find more details in the job ad on LinkedIn.
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More on the company here: https://www.innovationaus.com/thiel-fellow-koki-mashita-is-ready-to-hold-back-the-wind/
Mr Mashita and his colleagues at San Francisco-based Aeolus Labs have their sights initially on taking the wind out of tropical cyclones, to save lives and reduce damage. They are working on tech that can reduce the scale of a cyclone, and influence if or where that cyclone may make landfall.
But the company’s ambitions are planet-scale. It wants to influence climate systems, what it calls “planetary weather defence”.
A twenty-year-old from Japan, Mr Mashita founded his first company at age 10 (building to revenues), before convincing his parents to allow him to attend boarding school in the US when he was 13.
Without getting too spicy, I’ll offer that their stated goals strike me as both highly ambitious and ethically questionable.
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