Staff Geospatial Machine Learning Engineer (Boston)
Senior Geospatial Machine Learning Engineer
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The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our timebut its also the greatest opportunity for innovation. At Overstory, were harnessing cuttingedge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.
The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. Extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. The electric utility industry presents the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.
One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages is trees and brush coming into contact with power lines. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, were helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.
Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the region. Were outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good. Join us to help build a more resilient world together.
We are looking for a Senior Geospatial MLE to join the Vegetation Modeling team at Overstory. Youll spend time in small groups experimenting with, building, and improving algorithms to understand how vegetation impacts our customers. Weve developed solutions to coregister imagery, locate critical energy infrastructure, and identify tree species, heights, and health. Currently, we split our time between maintaining and improving these solutions and developing new features to understand wildfire risk and assess the impact of management strategies.
On the team, youll work with satellite imagery and geospatial datasets, using machine learning or deep learning to analyze their contents. Youll regularly interface with data and models through Python code, QGIS projects, and Dagster pipelines. Youll thrive when collaborating with a crossfunctional group of product, design, engineering, and platform team members, and being involved throughout the full scientific product lifecycle.
As a quickly growing, earlystage startup, youll contribute to the direction and culture of our organization. We collaborate closely with upstream teams responsible for data ingestion and downstream teams that deliver outputs to customers. Youll help shape how we work within our team and across the organization, influence core platform and pipeline decisions, and scope impactful projects.
What Youll Do
- Develop new vegetation intelligence products using standard geospatial Python libraries, as well as machine learning and deep learning tools
- Support existing products through data exploration, model improvements, and bugfixes, especially using QGIS, Dagster, Sentry, and Grafana
- Represent the team by leading projects and initiatives, planning, execution, delivery, and ensuring the value of our contributions is clear to stakeholders across the organization
- Build tooling and processes to measure value and performance of contributions, and help make datadriven decisions about where we can have the greatest impact
About You
- At least 8 years of commercial experience as a Data Scientist or Machine Learning Engineer
- Advanced scientific Python experience, including numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, pandas
- Experience with geospatial or satellite data, and tooling such as gdal, rasterio, shapely, fiona, geopandas, QGIS
- Experience with deep learning algorithms applied to geospatial data, and tooling such as pytorch, tensorflow
- Experience leading small teams organized around projects or initiatives
- Passionate about climate
- Enjoy working in a remotefirst, fastmoving environment
- Based in GMT/ CET/ EST time zones
Nicetohaves
- Experience at earlystage startups and remotefirst organizations
- Understanding of challenges of working with geospatial data at scale and potential solutions
- Deep industry experience in geospatial or forest science domains (e.g., SAR imagery, wildfire products)
If you dont meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply anyway.
What You Get
- Missiondriven work that reduces wildfires, protects natural resources, and helps solve the climate crisis
- Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy
- Remote working budget, educational budget, and time to develop new skills
- Supportive, vibrant team culture with openness, tolerance, and respect
- Equity and a competitive salary
About Our Team
We are 85 people from around the world, with 15 nationalities represented. We work remotely from nine countries and welcome candidates in the United States, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet in person once a year for a team gathering and occasionally collaborate in person.
Diversity & Inclusion
We value diversity and inclusion and strive to bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities, and backgrounds. Four of our nine leadership team members are female, 46% of the overall team are female, and 20% are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages.
Our Values
We tackle the climate crisis with urgency. Our curiosity fuels growth. Change is constant, and we find joy in exploration. We are rooted in diversity. We care for each other. Trust is fundamental.
Seniority level
- MidSenior level
Employment type
- Fulltime
Job function
- Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries: Software Development