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Computational modelling is at the core of climate science, where complex models of earth systems are a routine part of the scientific process, but this comes with challenges. Most models embed significant amounts of inherent and accidental complexity which impedes the programming task itself, as well as hampering verification and maintenance efforts, reproducibility, and high-performance executions to compute predictions. In the face of the present climate crisis, there is pressing need for skilled software engineers to aid climate scientists in delivering a new generation of high-quality, high-performance, and high-assurance models. This is the broad aim of these RSE posts at the new Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) at the University of Cambridge. ICCS hosts a team of Research Software Engineers who are working directly with four international Schmidt Futures' Virtual Earth Systems Research Institutes (VESRI) to directly address specific computation and research software needs of climate scientists. The team of RSEs will also interact closely with researchers based at ICCS. Thus, this provide a unique opportunity to be involved in research projects directly connected to climate science but also broader research into supporting climate science through computer science, software engineering, and data science.