Software Engineering for Next Generation Regional Modelling Industrial Placement 2027

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2027.

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, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. 

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 at the Met Office after you graduate.

Were looking for Software Engineering for Next Generation Regional Modelling Industrial Placement to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Software Engineering for Next Generation Regional Modelling Industrial Placement, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work. As an Industrial Placement, we would expect you to attend the office once a week as a minimum.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week.  Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• Were a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• Were experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• Were better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

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 in their field.  Youll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.

The Met Office is developing the next generation of its weather and climate modelling capability. LFRic provides software infrastructure for next-generation models and is designed to support efficient execution on emerging supercomputing architectures.

Regional modelling is an important part of this transition, requiring infrastructure capable of taking information from global LFRic simulations and using it to initialise and drive high-resolution limited-area models. The regional LFRic work already covers several tasks, including adapting data to different levels of detail, representing regional areas and terrain, converting weather information and creating the files needed to start and run a regional forecast. Some of this software is already in place, while other parts still need to be developed or brought together.

Through the project, you will develop practical skills in numerical methods, scientific software development and high-performance computing.

Your key duties:

• Contribute to the development and testing of regional LFRic modelling infrastructure.
• Work alongside Met Office scientists and software engineers to deliver a self-contained project within our regional modelling infrastructure.

1. Lead Criteria: An interest in applying software engineering to scientific or numerical problems, particularly large-scale simulation or modelling.
2. Experience of programming in at least one language, gained through university coursework, personal projects, employment or other practical experience (Expert by Nature).
3. Ability to work collaboratively as part of a technical team, including discussing ideas, asking questions and responding constructively to feedback (Better Together).
4. Good written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical ideas clearly to colleagues with different areas of expertise.
5. Ability to organise and manage your own work, seek guidance when appropriate, and make progress on a defined technical project.

The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.