My Met Job is a job board and learning hub built specifically for meteorologists.
Meteorology has a strange gap. Most university programs focus on theory and research, with little training on applying forecasts to real decisions, and almost no support exists once you graduate. If you’re outside the United States, which has the most jobs every year, breaking in is harder still.
I felt this firsthand. In summer 2006, I flew from Houston to interview at United Airlines in Chicago. The six-hour interview included a hand analysis with colored pencils and upper-level charts. My task was to identify the risks to O’Hare Airport. I nailed the dense fog and missed the nocturnal thunderstorms forming on the warm front. I left feeling good, then heard nothing for six months. By the time the offer came, I had forgotten about the job and signed a year-long lease. Breaking that lease, renting a U-Haul, and moving to Chicago cost me about $4000 that I didn’t have. It was still the best career decision I made: in that one job I learned more than all the time in my first job, especially about developing a forecast process, preparing for the unexpected, and making hard decisions under pressure. Opportunities like that are rare early in a meteorology career.
This experience pushed me to focus on who is getting jobs and who is not. When I looked at the numbers, in 2007, roughly 10 new graduates were competing for every job opening that year. I don’t have current figures, but from what I’ve seen, it hasn’t gotten better. The hiring side isn’t much better. Having been a hiring manager and worked for ten companies, I’ve seen postings that vary wildly and few rubrics for judging candidates fairly, so selection often comes down to a guess. My Met Job is my attempt to fix both sides.
For meteorologists, My Met Job offers:
•Career paths and the jobs along each one
•Profiles of companies that hire meteorologists
•Resume and cover letter examples that led to interviews
•Interview preparation methods
•Low-cost courses on the skills the job actually requires
For employers:
•Free job postings with a 30-day time limit, but you can repost if needed
•A job posting template that attracts meteorologists
•A hiring rubric for evaluating candidates fairly
•An interview process, including a forecast skills test, you can adopt
•No paywall, so meteorologists can always see your post
Browse the job board at mymetjob.com.
The job board, courses, career help options, and the Friday Job Report will all fill out over time.
Issued on the 23rd of October, 2026
International
Title: Lead Forecasting
Company: AXPO
Location: Oslo, Norway & Malmo, Sweden
Work Location: Hybrid
Degree:
Experience: Experienced.
Qualifications:
Who Should Apply: A rare opportunity in Norway in a job requiring English, but having a Scandinavian language as well is a plus. This is for those who want to work in energy and can live in Oslo or Malmo, Sweden. This would be a great job for those in this part of the world or if you want to be in this part of the world, which is beautiful in the Summer and dark, snowy, and colder in the Winter. This involves working on a trading floor and would be an exciting job for the right person.
United States
Title: Senior Wildfire Risk Mitigation Consultant
Company: Jensen Hughes
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Work Location: Remote - Western US
Pay: $127,000 - $197,000/annual
Degree: Bachelor's degree in Disaster Risk Management, Fire Engineering | Fire Science, Electrical Engineering | Electrical Utilities, Environmental Sciences | Engineering, Forestry, or a related field
Experience: 10+
Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications
Who Should Apply: If you have extensive experience, especially in wildfires or planning, and live somewhere in the western US. Really good for those who can't move for a job; this job has a wide range of possible locations you could live. If you are a former IMET with the NOAA, this would be a good role for you. Not entry-level.
United States
Title: Reinsurance Treaty Catastrophe Modeler
Company: Brown & Brown
Location: Remote
Work Location: Remote
Pay: $170,000 to $190,000/year
Degree: Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field such as Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in catastrophe modeling, specifically within the reinsurance industry.
Qualifications:
Who Should Apply: If you have been working in reinsurance or insurance or just catastrophe modeling and are looking for a new opportunity that is remote in the US, this role has similar requirements to other catastrophe modeling positions and wouldn't be a stretch for most people. It may come down more to the company and the reputation in the industry.
International
Title: Voyage Analyst
Company: Sofar Ocean
Location: Europe/India
Work Location: Remote
Pay: Not Given
Degree: Bachelor's degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, Climate Science, Environmental Science, Physics, or a related field.
Experience: 3+ years of experience
Qualifications:
Who Should Apply: This is a great opportunity if you've already been working as a route analyst and are looking to move into a new role. This role is remote in India or Europe, and requires overlap with the US Pacific hours. This company
United States
Title: Launch Meteorologist
Company: SpaceX
Location: Starbase, TX (near Brownsville, TX)
Work Location: Onsite
Pay: Not Given
Degree: Bachelor's in Meteorology or Atmospheric Science
Experience:
Qualifications:
Who Should Apply: This is a very cool job for a very specific type of person with prior launch experience, which rules out most meteorologists. This may be some one that has worked at Cape Canaveral or Patrick AFB, either a civilian working at a military base or meteorologist that was in the military.
Location: Brownsville is near the Mexico border, and this job is right on the beach with the Gulf of Mexico.
International
Title: Meteorologist
Company: The Weather Company
Work Location: United Kingdom
Pay: Not Given
Degree:
Degree in meteorology, atmospheric science, or a related field.
Experience:
Key Skills or Knowledge: (You should be able to do these duties)
Preferred Skills
Who Should Apply?
This is a very unique opportunity, but a good one if you live in the UK or have the right to work in the UK. Most companies in the UK are not going to be looking for candidates to forecast in the US, but this position is just that. You need to have some background in broadcast, but also understand North American weather patterns, which are much different than Europe. If you have this rare background, then you should apply, especially early in your career. If you have less than 3 years but have this sort of background, you should apply anyway and see what they say. Worst case, they ignore you.
United States
Title: Senior Meteorologist
Company: The Weather Company
Work Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Pay: Not Given
Degree:
Years of Experience:
Key Skills or Knowledge:
Who Should Apply?
To me this client sounds like a regional trucking company. The reason is, the addition of snow and ice, which do not occur in Phoenix, but definitely occur on I-17 north of Phoenix heading to Flagstaff and towards the Grand Canyon. I-40 running West to East across northern Arizona is known to have snow and ice issues. Other smaller routes around Sedona and Payson can also see snow and ice. Believe me, I have been in Sedona during a snowstorm, and there were no snowplows for a while, which means the roads remain icy for long periods. Flash flooding and dust storms can occur with the same storm; regardless, they are both major driving hazards.
You don't have to have road weather experience to do this job.
You do have to be able to develop a sense of the microclimates, develop case studies and pattern recognition guides in order to confidently make a forecast, on your own, stand by it, and then share it with the entire fleet. You have to be able to make forecasts that have several parts, such as the warm and cold sector of a storm and how it will affect different routes. It would be very helpful if you had a sense of road elevations, exposure points, frost pockets, and more for each mile of road.
United States
Title: Meteorological Data Scientist
Company: Tomorrow.io
Location: Boston, MA
Work Location: Hybrid
Pay: $105,000 - $115,000
Degree: A degree in Atmospheric Science or Meteorology is required.
Experience: 3+ years
Qualifications:
Who Should Apply: If you live in Boston or already live nearby in Andover and want to change jobs, this is a great role if you already have the operational background, but enough coding and a desire to work more in data science to work with model data and develop applications, especially around AI.
United States
Title: Data Analyst IV
Company: TCEQ
Location: Austin, TX
Work Location: Onsite
Pay: $6499/month
Closing Date: 10/29/2026
Degree: A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in engineering, basic science, computer science, environmental science, mathematics, statistics, or a related field; plus three years of the required experience.
Experience: 5+ years
Qualifications:
Who Should Apply: You are graduating from Texas A&M, U of H, Texas Tech, or any other university and want to work in Austin with air quality. This is a job with the state of Texas. There are many air quality jobs in the US working for the state, so if you live in another state, always look at your state's environmental departments. This job doesn't require a lot and pays pretty well, although Austin is a little pricey- definitely way more expensive than Houston or Dallas, both of which have meteorology openings at times. However, in my opinion, Austin is way better.
United States
Title: Extension Specialist and Director of the UGA Weather Network
Company: University of Georgia
Location: Athens, GA
Work Location: Onsite
Degree: M.S. in meteorology, atmospheric science, agricultural engineering, climate science or a closely related field
Experience: 1-3+ years, including training and background in managing extension programs and agriculture systems.
Qualifications:
Who Should Apply: First off this is one of the few agriculture meteorology roles that doesn't involve commodity trading or knowledge of such and much more boots on the ground, in the weeds working directly with farmers to help them understand how the weather will affect their crops, what to plant, what crops to alternate in multiple fields, how frost, disease, and bugs may affect their crop, and fertilizer applications may just runoff if the conditions are not ideal. Since my spouse worked for extension for a different university I am familiar what is involved.
Location: Athens is a cool, college town sort of in northeastern Georgia, east of Atlanta. Not far to the North you have the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains, with river rafting, camping and hiking and in the winter downhill skiing. Yes they get snow, sometimes. Not too far from the beach, mild weather and if you enjoy sports, a lot of sporting events in this part of the US. Plus if you want to work around other meteorologist and climate professionals, working at a university is ideal.
United States
Title: Hazard Mitigation Planning Specialist
Company: Texas A&M University
Location: College Station, Texas
Work Location: Hybrid
Pay: $5,833/month
Degree: Bachelor’s degree in urban planning, Emergency Management, Geography, Public Administration, Environmental Science, Engineering, Natural Resources, or a closely related field.
Experience: 8+ years of experience in hazard mitigation planning, resilience planning, emergency management, climate adaptation, or a related field - Many meteorologists can claim this experience even if you've never held this position.
Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications
Who Should Apply:
This is a very specific type of experience, and it may fall to a government or former government meteorologist or someone working in academia around flooding and somewhere where you would have interacted with FEMA.
Road Weather Meteorology: The Career Nobody Talks About
One overturned truck can shut down an interstate for hours. Multiply that by every snowstorm, ice event, and windy mountain pass in a winter, and you gt a significant financial loss in delays, damage, and recovery costs each year.
Road weather forecasting exists to prevent that. It rarely gets attention, but it’s one of the more concrete ways a forecast turns into a decision.
Who Depends on Road Weather Forecasts
Where the Jobs Are
State and provincial contractors. Companies like Weathernet in the Seattle area forecast for government clients. They work directly with snowplow crews to make sure drivers are staffed, and the right treatment chemicals are on hand. They may also help highway patrol set up chain controls for trucks near mountain passes.
Commodities and supply chain logistics. This work focuses on the cargo rather than the road. Supply chain logistics is a global business spanning road, air, and ocean, but the roadside centers on when clients’ trucks will be on specific roads in specific regions.
Trucking companies. Some fleets hire their own meteorologists. These roles are rarer, but they exist.
What the Job Looks Like
Roads run through every kind of terrain, so you forecast for every kind of terrain. Most shops split their territory into sections and assign them across forecasters.
When I worked in road weather, I started with all of Utah, then added Wyoming and Nevada. Interstate 80, a major trucking corridor, crosses all three, but at very different elevations and with very different exposure to weather. The job was knowing the microclimates along the entire route and where the hot spots were: a mountain pass, a shaded stretch that stays icy, a low spot where fog settles, a section that catches the wind.
My customers weren’t only trucks, but trucks set the standard for “bad weather.” A tipped truck blocked the whole road, so wind and ice thresholds were built around them.
How to Get Hired
Road weather can be entry-level, but usually not for mountain routes, unless you attended a university in a mountainous location or you have a high GPA; some companies seem to think that makes you a good forecaster.
More likely, this is going to be 1 to 3 years of experience at the low end, and 5+ years to lead the group.
You should have experience in mountain microclimates, the ocean/lake-land interface, and areas that can experience significant forms of weather such as cross-winds, icing, or severe storms.
The thing that takes you to the top of the candidates is the ability to talk. You need to have a conversation with the interviewer, like they are a client. Speak with confidence. Don’t say “uh” or “like” very much. Be concise and to the point. Those are the people who win the interview contest and get the job.
Where to Find These Jobs
Many companies bundle road weather with other forecasting, so you may not see it listed as its own role. It’s often wrapped into an operational meteorology position. Search for “operational meteorologist,” not just “road weather.”
I’ve worked for several companies that provide road weather forecasts:
Want to Learn Road Weather Forecasting?
I’m building a course on road weather forecasting for meteorologists who want to break into this field. Visit the Courses page on My Met Job to join the waitlist and be the first to know when it’s available.
The website is a combination of a job board and a learning hub for meteorologists. The job board will fill out over time and, for now, is pre-filled with jobs posted elsewhere. Jobs are posted for free and remain on the board for 30 days. You can view them for no cost.
In addition to the job board, there are free and low-cost courses to help teach the skills you need to be considered for various meteorology roles. There is also an option to hire My Met Job to help you with your resume, cover letter, prepare for your interview, or as a career coach.
Companies can hire My Met Job to find the best candidates, with an option to have My Met Job onboard or train your staff to reduce the amount of time you have to step away from your duties.
The Forecast Desk: Transition from University to Professional Meteorologist is available now. The course is free.
Energy Meteorology Primer: A short course on getting a job in energy meteorology will be available soon for $50 USD.
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