Full-Time

Member of Technical Staff

Compute Cluster

Causal Labs

Causal Labs

Trains physics AI models to forecast weather

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

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Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Microsoft Azure
Distributed Systems
CUDA
Machine Learning
Computer Networking
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Docker
Version Control
AWS
Observability
Linux/Unix
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • Experience operating large-scale GPU clusters and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, Slurm, and Docker.
  • Strong systems background in Linux, networking, storage, and infrastructure as code.
  • Knowledge of cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure and their machine learning and artificial intelligence service offerings.
  • Understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and version control best practices for machine learning systems.
  • Familiarity with CUDA and NCCL and performance profiling for distributed workloads.
  • Ability to own deliverables end-to-end, from requirements through autonomous execution.
Responsibilities
  • Design, deploy, and operate large distributed GPU clusters end to end, including provisioning, imaging, upgrades, and capacity planning.
  • Extend scheduling and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Slurm for topology-aware placement, preemption, quotas, and multi-tenancy across training and inference workloads.
  • Build software that abstracts cluster management and presents a unified, self-serve interface to researchers and engineers.
  • Own cluster storage and artifact paths for checkpoints and logs, with clear retention and lineage.
  • Monitor and continuously improve reliability and error recovery, and build observability to catch failures before researchers do.
  • Partner with researchers to unblock large-scale runs and advise on performance and placement trade-offs.

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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