[Hiring] Senior Wildfire Data Scientist @Overstory
Mar 07, 2025 - Overstory is hiring a remote Senior Wildfire Data Scientist. 💸 Salary: competitive salary and equity. 📍Location: Europe, USA, UK.
Role Description
We are looking for a Senior Wildfire Data Scientist to join our new Wildfire Product Team at Overstory. This is a full-stack product team focused on developing innovative wildfire-related products, with the ultimate goal of helping customers mitigate risk and improve resilience.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, ML engineers, and product and design owners.
- Mock and prototype solutions, working with internal and external stakeholders to validate products.
- Leverage Overstory’s internal data layers and technical tooling while iterating quickly outside of the typical organizational structure.
- Ensure that new products are released to customers.
- Advocate for best practices in data science, geospatial analyses, and wildfire risk and resilience modeling.
- Identify product opportunities, mitigate risks and uncertainty, and balance development and delivery.
- Shape how the Wildfire Product Team works within the organization and influence core decisions about our platform and pipelines.
- Scope out impactful projects.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of commercial experience as a Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer.
- Deep data science skills and experience at early-stage or remote-first organizations.
- Intermediate-level technical skills, especially with modern tech stacks including Python and its scientific libraries, Jupyter ecosystem, GCS or other cloud platforms.
- Experience taking products from 0-1 with supporting product team.
- Comfortable iterating on prototypes and using low-cost mocks and visualizations to develop ideas.
- Advocate for products which account for and communicate probabilities or uncertainty.
- Passionate about climate.
- Based in the EU, UK, US East/Central/Mountain.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in wildfire, climate, atmospheric, environmental sciences, or a related field.
- Wildfire expert able to highlight opportunities and risks to guide product development.
- Deeply familiar with modern approaches to wildfire risk modeling and their pros/cons.
- Track record of taking at least one wildfire project from start to finish.
- Comfortable with deep learning or non-traditional approaches to modeling wildfire risk.
Benefits
- Part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires and helps solve our climate crisis.
- Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy.
- Remote working budget, educational budget, and time to develop new skills.
- Surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team with a culture of openness, tolerance, and respect.
- Equity and a competitive salary.
About our team
We are a group of 62 people from all over the world, representing fifteen nationalities. We work remotely from nine different countries and meet up once a year for an in-person team gathering event.
Diversity & Inclusion
We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities, and backgrounds.
Our values
- Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.
- We act with urgency.
- Our curiosity fuels our growth.
- We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
- We’re rooted in diversity.
- We care for each other.
- Trust is fundamental.
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Salary
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competitive salary and equity
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Remote
Location
Europe, USA, UK
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Job Type
full-time
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Posted
Mar 07, 2025
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| 📍 | Be aware of the location restriction for this remote position: Europe, USA, UK |
| ‼ | Beware of scams! When applying for jobs, you should NEVER have to pay anything. Learn more. |
