Role overview
Your Team Responsibilities:
We are developing cutting-edge tools to identify and analyze climate change risk exposure of companies and real estate investments. Our models simulate natural and physical risks into insightful metrics for investors. A cornerstone of our climate modeling capabilities is our GeoSpatial dataset of asset locations, which is integrated into multiple models such as physical risk and biodiversity risk.
The team is seeking a Geospatial Data Scientist to contribute to the development of tools and models to expand our coverage of physical and natural assets and their associated attributes. This is a technical role requiring deep expertise in (geospatial) data science and/or remote sensing, as well as strong computational skills.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute and co-lead projects as part of the R&D effort of asset-level geospatial datasets, including physical infrastructure and natural capital
- Design and prototype scalable spatial models and analytics using Python leveraging geospatial libraries and machine learning frameworks.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and work with engineers to deploy models into production.
Your skills and experience that will help you excel:
- 5+ years of experience in geospatial data science, exposure/cat modelling, or climate analytics
- Advanced coding skills in Python with familiarity with data science libraries such as pandas, numpy, scipy, scikit-learn.
- Deep expertise in geospatial libraries including GDAL, OGR, rasterio, geopandas, xarray, rioxarray and common geospatial data formats (GeoTIFF, NetCDF, GRIB, GeoSON, Parquet/GeoParquet).
- Experience with handling millions of data points and parallel computing frameworks such as Dask or multiprocessing is desirable.
- Hands-on experience in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and cloud-native geospatial workflows are desirable.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Geography, Earth Systems Science, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related discipline.
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