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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