Razorege Climate Models and Workflows Industrial Placement

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2027. You will develop your skills and knowledge, ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience.

You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities are on offer after you graduate.

The Role

We’re looking for a Razorege Climate Models and Workflows Industrial Placement 2027 to help us make a difference to our planet.

This role may be suitable for hybrid working, with a minimum of one day per week in the office. The advertised location will be your contractual place of work.

This is a full-time role, 37 hours per week.

World Changing Work

The Met Office is an authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction, helping individuals, industries, and government make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.

• Force for good: Focusing on environmental and social impact.
• Experts by nature: Always learning and developing.
• Live and breathe it: Purpose at the heart of decision-making.
• Better together: Understanding partnerships and inclusivity.
• Keep evolving: Pushing boundaries for a better tomorrow.

Your World of Expertise

Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts. You’ll be working on projects that matter and make a difference.

The Global High Resolution Climate Modelling team studies the effects of model resolution in the coupled atmosphere/ocean/sea-ice system. It will lead the EU funded "Regional ocean zooms, enhancements and hybrid methods for climate extremes and impacts at global and local scales" (RaZorEGe) project with 13 international partners that starts in January 2027.

Key Duties

• Developing and testing updated workflows for running and analysing Next Generation Modelling Systems models.
• Developing improvements or replacements to existing tools to monitor model evolution.
• Adapting existing analysis and visualisation workflows to handle the new unstructured mesh (in the atmosphere) and two-way zooms in the ocean.
• Active involvement in analysing new simulations as part of Razorege and comparison with CMIP7 high-resolution simulations.

Why Join Us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified and featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

Your Package Includes

• Salary: £27,170
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27.5 days
• Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands.

Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2028, there may be an opportunity to apply for our Graduate Development scheme upon completion of your university studies. This is not guaranteed and would be subject to programme availability and a successful application.

Essential Criteria, Skills and Experience

• Lead Criteria: Relevant experience of the analysis of climate or environmental data in a modern programming language such as Python.
• Studying for a degree or equivalent experience in a scientific or computational discipline such as mathematics, physics, computer science, data science, atmospheric science or a related subject.
• Ability to work collaboratively and communicate technical information clearly in writing and presentations.
• A willingness and ability to learn new scientific or technical skills, apply feedback and develop effective ways of working.

How to Apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application.

Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills. Please also look at the Early Careers Programmes Application Guidance at the bottom of this advert.

Closing Date

23:59 8th November 2026.

Interviews will be completed by 16th December 2026.

Using AI in your application

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI.

How We Can Help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK. We require Security clearance without caveats and/or restrictions for this role, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application.