Principal Engineer, ClimateAi
$160-240k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
Accelerating climate resilience in food and agriculture
Job no longer available
Accelerating climate resilience in food and agriculture
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$160-240k
+ Equity
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help businesses identify the actions needed today to adapt to the climate change disruptions of tomorrow.
Role
Who you are
- BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
- 8+ years proven experience as a software engineer, and at least 3 years of engineering leadership experience
- Good programming experience in backend development technologies like Python, Java, Golang, Ruby etc
- Extensive experience designing, developing and owning production quality backend architectures and services, and pipelines
- Strong experience working with data stores like SQL, no-SQL, and object storage
- Experience building cloud native, containerized applications running in Kubernetes on AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience in communicating with other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience mentoring junior software engineers to improve their skills, making them more effective software engineers
- Experience influencing software engineering best practices iteratively across an engineering organization
- Proven track record collaborating with other partners to design and implement features and systems with excellent problem solving skills
What the job involves
- Drive the technical design and play a central role in planning, and implementation of our frontend and backend service, data, and cloud architecture
- Collaborate with engineering, design, user experience, product and analytics teams to identify needs, evaluate requirements, write specifications, and design and implement sophisticated software systems
- Ensure engineering efforts are high quality and moving in the right direction
- Act as a consultant for feature teams and any technical issue in engineering
- Function as the most senior technical resource for the various Scrum teams
- Take a hands-on approach in the development of prototypes, independently and with others, to establish design decisions and/or technical feasibility
- Write well crafted, efficient and testable code in Python / Java / Golang
- Scope out tasks and systems, looking for future improvements
- Strive for excellence in software craftsmanship through continuous improvement and iterative change
- Mentor fellow engineers from a technical perspective
Our take
Climate change is creating urgent risks for industries like agriculture, where unpredictable weather patterns, drought, and flooding threaten food security, supply chains, and infrastructure. As the IPCC highlights, the window to mitigate the worst effects of climate change is closing fast, making climate adaptation crucial.
ClimateAi is tackling these challenges with its AI-powered platform, ClimateLens™, which uses machine learning and data from multiple sources to deliver weather and climate insights. By providing forecasts with a 1km range, the platform helps businesses anticipate climate risks and make data-driven decisions across areas like sourcing, supply chains, and risk management.
Raising a total of $25.3M, the company has seen rapid growth, increasing its annual recurring revenue by five times and expanding its customer base fourfold. With big-name clients like Dole, Driscoll's, and The Nuveen Natural Capital, ClimateAi has established itself as a trusted partner and is on a strong, continued growth journey.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Apr 2023
$22m
SERIES B
Jul 2021
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $34m
Company benefits
- 100% remote work, unless you live in or near San Francisco, CA or Queretaro, Mexico and would like to go into the office there. We also have regional meet-ups when possible + weekly virtual gatherings
- Best-in-class health benefits plus 401k
- Unlimited paid vacation
- Generous and flexible parental leave policy
- Work from home and laptop budgets
- Culture of transparency and honest feedback at all levels
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Himanshu Gupta
(Co-Founder & CEO)Himanshu has been a Guest Lecturer of AI and Social Good at Stanford University Department of Computer Science since 2024. Prior to co-founding ClimateAi in 2017, he worked in Growth Equity at Generation Investment Management.
Will Kletter
(COO)Will joined ClimateAI in 2020 as a Director of Customer Success. Since then, he has held a number of roles and moved into the role of COO in 2025. Prior to ClimateAi, he spent 4 years at Boston Consulting Group as a Consultant, Project Leader, and Principal.
David Farnham, PhD
(VP of AI & Engineering)David joined ClimateAi in 2021 as a Senior Innovation Scientist. Since then, he has held various roles and moved into the role of VP of AI & Engineering in 2025. He is also a Journal Reviewer for a Variety of Academic Journals.
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