Columbia Engineering, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in the City of New York invites applications for an Associate Research Scientist in the field of land modeling and machine learning, under the supervision of Pierre Gentine at Columbia University and David Lawrence at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The position is part of the National Science Foundation-funded Learning the Earth with Artificial intelligence and Physics (LEAP) Science and Technology Center (STC), https://leap.columbia.edu/, a multi-institutional center effort meant to improve climate projections using novel artificial intelligence for better climate adaptation. The position will be based at