Overstory

Overstory

Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Wildfire

Remote: United States | Canada · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 75 days ago
GCPMachine LearningDeep LearningTensorFlowPyTorchSparkComputer VisionMLOpsA/B TestingComplianceResearchCommunicationCollaborationMentoringRemote Sensing

About the role

  • The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time-but it's also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we're proud to take on.
  • The grid is the backbone of life as we know it.
  • It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build advanced ML models to map and predict vegetation and fuel conditions across diverse geographies.
  • Design and maintain robust data and feature pipelines for large-scale geospatial and temporal data.
  • Partner with wildfire science and product teams to define modeling objectives and evaluation metrics tied to real-world impact.
  • Build reproducible experimentation frameworks and model evaluation workflows.
  • Lead the evolution of ML systems, tooling, and processes - ensuring that our wildfire fuelscape models remain state-of-the-art and maintainable.
  • Collaborate with MLOps peers to streamline training, inference, and monitoring in production environments.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and scientific domains
  • Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond.
  • We are responsible for creating and maintaining a culture where everyone - regardless of background - has a voice in building a sustainable future.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience designing and building production-grade ML pipelines and systems
  • Hands-on experience with frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, or LightGBM, and data tools like Dask, Spark, or GeoPandas

Nice to have

  • Experience in model interpretability and data provenance for environmental ML systems
  • Note: We believe that all people are capable of great things.
  • We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet all of the requirements that are listed within this job description.

Compensation

  • Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits

Benefits

  • Flexible, autonomous and collaborative working environment rooted in trust - we build our work days around our lives, not the other way around
  • Home office stipend, coworking and ongoing education budgets
  • Competitive, location-specific compensation and benefits

Company info

  • At Overstory, we're harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.
  • At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize.
  • To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth's natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis
  • We are a group of 100 people from all over the world.

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