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Causal Labs

Causal Labs

Trains physics AI models to forecast weather

Member of Technical Staff - Research Engineering, Evaluation

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
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About the job

Requirements
  • Strong software engineering skills and experience building data or evaluation pipelines at scale.
  • Experience turning research or model outputs into metrics, benchmarks, and visualizations that teams rely on.
  • A solid grasp of probability and statistics, with the judgment to design evaluations that measure what they claim to measure.
  • Comfort building both backend pipelines and frontend tools used to read results.
  • Ability to own deliverables end-to-end, from collecting requirements to autonomously driving execution.
Responsibilities
  • Design and build a central, reusable evaluation framework that every model and every team runs through.
  • Implement evaluation pipelines, benchmark suites, and baselines that make model quality measurable and comparable across efforts.
  • Build visualization and dashboard tools that turn raw results into shared, actionable understanding for the whole team.
  • Establish sound statistical methodology for evaluation so teams can distinguish real improvements from noise.
  • Partner with research and domain teams to translate what good means in each domain into standardized, automated metrics.

About the company

Causal Labs is an AI research company building a foundation model of physical systems for industries whose operations turn on the weather. The company trains on atmospheric sensor and observation data rather than text or images, a domain where cause and effect are governed by physics and yesterday's prediction can be scored against what happened. It runs early pilots with commercial partners and pairs researchers with engineers who deploy the models on customer data. Unlike conventional forecasters, which report what conditions are likely, it is also trying to identify which interventions would change an outcome. The company's goal is to make AI reason about cause and effect by grounding it in the most heavily observed physical system available.

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • March 2025 seed from Kindred, BoxGroup, and Factorial signals strong investor validation.
  • August 2026 hiring lists twenty open roles, showing aggressive team expansion and product-building.
  • Fortune reported ongoing pilot programs across critical industries, suggesting early commercial demand.

What critics are saying

  • Google DeepMind, Nvidia, and ECMWF-backed weather models compress Causal Labs' technical moat by 2026.
  • Weather control invites regulatory scrutiny over cloud seeding, liability, and public backlash before commercialization.
  • A $6 million seed round barely funds GPU-heavy model training; cash burn threatens a 2027 reset.

What makes Causal Labs unique

  • Physics-based Large Physics Model targets weather prediction and weather control, not static forecasting.
  • Founders Kelsie Zhao and Dar Mehta bring Cruise autonomy experience and real-time systems expertise.
  • Product promise is hyperlocal, minute-scale forecasts plus decision recommendations for agriculture, aviation, and energy.

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