Senior Geospatial Data Scientist
About Artio:
Join us as we transform the carbon insurance landscape! As a founding team member, you'll be instrumental in launching and scaling our pioneering business. You’ll work with our CEO to create market-leading risk models. If you're passionate about making a real impact in the climate space, driven by data and eager to use your technical expertise to fuel innovation, we want you on our team.
About the role:
We are seeking a highly skilled geospatial data scientist with a focus on climate insurance products. In this role, you will collaborate with data scientists, domain specialists, and engineers to develop and deploy cutting-edge methods for monitoring environmental changes and assessing risks related to carbon projects.
What you’ll be doing
Develop and implement innovative methodologies for monitoring and assessing carbon and biodiversity changes using satellite remote sensing data
Analyse and interpret climate data to assess risks and impacts to carbon projects and their ability to store/sequester carbon
Lead the integration of remote sensing data with climate models and ground measurements to improve risk assessment accuracy.
Collaborate with insurance product teams to design insurance products
Create a knowledge base for the team internally and be an advocate for the company mission externally
Assist the CEO in delivering robust risk methodologies to price insurance policies
What we’re looking for
MSc (or PhD) in Data Science or Climate Science with relevant experience in industry (minimum 2 years). Experts with no academic qualifications but >5 years experience can also apply!
Exposure to innovative insurance products from novel and new datasets
Experience in creating data pipelines and writing production level code
Understanding of machine/deep learning models and applications of LLMs.
Python and Postgres expertise with a focus on using the right tools for the job rather than using python for all jobs. (We don’t mind MVP’s and concepts on spreadsheets!)
Nice to Have
Experience with Docker, FastApi, AWS/GCP
Previous experience in a start-up environment or an understanding of the challenges of building a new business.
Compensation/Benefits
Salary: £50k-65k (equity and salary ratio negotiable)
100% Remote possible within +/-2 GMT
The team is located in London and meets once a week, although this is optional
Unlimited annual leave. We trust our team to get the work done and manage their own time off.
A chance to influence company benefits and perks as the team grows.
The above information is meant to serve as a guide. If you don’t tick all the boxes, please still apply!