Geophysics Machine Learning Engineer, Early Stage Climate Project

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About the team

We are an early stage climate-focused project at X. The team is hiring a geophysics ML engineer, who will work on defining a set of geophysics machine learning experiments and executing them.

About the Role

In this role, you will be leading the back-end stack for the project -  iterating through prototypes, designing longer-term system designs, and building a scalable solution. This position calls for a highly-organized self-starter with a passion for early stage projects and comfort with ambiguity. 

Responsibilities:

• Resident geophysicist on the team: define ML experiments, perform data review.
• Get hands dirty! Identify and implement a set of prototypes/experiments to aggressively de-risk the projects. 
• Set direction for the engineering team implementing the experiments, mentoring the team on geophysics.
• Serve as the geophysics expert in communications with partners.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Experience building ML models on geophysical data (seismic surveys, gravity/mag, well logs, documents, …)
• Self-starter - can make progress independently.
• Java/Python readability.
• People management experience.
• Strong communication skills.
• MS/PhD degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Field geophysics experience.
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically about complex initiatives to guide a variety of moving pieces towards execution.
• Ability to influence without authority, working with technical and cross-functional teams who do not report into this role to get things done
• Motivated by making the world a better place through technology, and wanting to be part of a team that makes this happen

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