Frontend Software Engineer

Terrafuse is building AI technology that accelerates climate physics models from hours on a supercomputer to seconds in the cloud, greatly improving our ability to protect against disastrous impacts of climate change and plan renewable energy infrastructure.

Climate change is projected to displace hundreds of millions of people and cause trillions of dollars in damage by 2050. Protecting people and infrastructure against the damage is only possible with accurate and granular risk models, because broadly protecting all areas is too expensive. For example, increased frequency of wildfires is forcing insurers out of California - however, with our product that accurately quantifies wildfire risk property by property, it becomes economical for them to continue providing coverage.

Additionally, our wind product helps optimize global wind energy production, which is growing 20% year over year as the world transitions to a clean energy economy.

Our technology combines our academic expertise in climate science and machine learning, developed from our work at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and supported by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Microsoft AI for Earth. Our customers include corporate and government players in the insurance, aviation, and clean energy industries. 

The position

Climate science and ML experts on our team have developed machine learning models that greatly outperform the wildfire and wind risk analytics products most commonly used in the market today. Your role will be to deliver the frontend software tools for insurance, aviation, and energy agency customers to consume these forecasting models. You will collaborate cross-functionally with our Principal Software Engineer, ML engineers, CTO, and CEO to prototype and iterate.

Our HQ is in the San Francisco Bay Area but this position is open to remote work anywhere in the US.

Traits we’re looking for

Must-haves:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field
• 3+ years of experience with Javascript, HTML and CSS
• Commercial experience building front end user interfaces and SaaS products
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks (for example React, vue.js, angular, etc) and CSS pre-processing frameworks (for example Sass or Less)
• Strong understanding of design elements and passion for great design

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience using geospatial data or mapping tools (for example Leaflet and GIS)
• Experience with designing user interfaces (UIs) from scratch
• Experience with Python full-stack engineering

What we offer

• Work with a talented team of AI and climate scientists on hard problems that have real impact;
• VC-backed team that is also adept at attracting Federal R&D funding.
• As an early team member reporting directly to the C-suite, you will have a major impact on the company's product, overall direction and culture.
• A competitive salary and equity compensation.
• Other benefits: medical, dental, and vision options; 401k.

Terrafuse is committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, or parental responsibilities, we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.