Geospatial Analyst

Welcome to Perennial.

Perennial is building the world’s leading verification platform for soil-based carbon removal. Our vision is to unlock soil as the world’s largest carbon sink. To do that, we are building trusted standards, tools, and technologies to help verify climate-smart agriculture.

Perennial uses the world’s most advanced remote measurement technology for soil carbon sequestration and emissions. We fuse machine learning, ground observations, and satellite data to map soil carbon and land-based GHG emissions at continent-level scales. This technology is powering the future of climate-smart agriculture and helping the food supply chain decarbonize.

At Perennial, you will work in a mission-driven and collaborative environment alongside a diverse team with backgrounds spanning science, technology, carbon markets, and agriculture.

Our offices are located in Boulder, CO USA and Adelaide, SA Australia. We are a fully-flexible company for remote and hybrid work.

We’re venture-backed by mission-aligned investors including Temasek, Bloomberg, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, SineWave Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, and Collaborative Fund.

About the Role:

As a Geospatial Analyst, you will be responsible for assisting the Perennial Operations, Data Science, and the Commercial teams with generating maps and visualizations that convey the scope and results of our technology, geospatial data management, scientific data collection planning, and customer deliveries. You will source and prepare external geospatial datasets for modeling and assist with organization of geospatial data for ingestion/consumption. In addition, you will make aesthetic and informative visualizations using the ESRI software suite to inform and inspire current and prospective customers. This role requires a process driven person with an organizational mindset, willing to receive direction and execute with autonomy. This role is a great opportunity to leverage your GIS and analysis skills to build your Data Science experience and solve problems related to climate change.

What You'll Own:

• Plan field collection campaigns within GIS software – work with scientists to translate sample designs into plans and files to guide field surveyors
• Geospatial QA/QC of sample collection and lab analysis results
• Create insightful reports for customers based on geospatial analyses and visualizations
• Geospatial data management, including organizing and archiving field collection campaign data
• Develop informative, impactful geospatial data visualizations for communicating scientific results and illustrating product capabilities
• Work with data scientists to source, correct, and process new geospatial data for analysis
• Assist in preparation of model performance reports - GIS graphics and content
• Assist in QA/QC of model outputs for customer deliveries
• Support modeling and data analysis associated with customer deliveries

What You'll Bring:

• 2+ years of ESRI suite GIS experience (ArcGIS, ArcMap, ArgGIS Web, etc.)
• Passion, love of learning, organization and attention to detail
• Adaptability and creativity to solve problems in a dynamic environment
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to tell a story through informative, aesthetic maps and visualizations
• Data analysis experience or coursework in data science
• Thorough experience correcting, preparing, and processing raster and vector datasets
• Experience delivering spatial datasets that meet requirements and are error-free
• Experience analyzing data with Python, for example:
• Scikit-learn
• Pandas
• Numpy

What will make you stand out:

• 3+ years of ESRI suite GIS experience
• Bachelors or Masters degree in geography, ecology, agriculture, geoscience, or related field.
• Experience with data visualization in Python or R
• Matplotlib
• Plotly
• Seaborn
• ggplot
• Experience automating spatial processing workflows using Python
• GDAL Python API
• Rasterio
• Shapely
• PyProj
• Geopandas
• Experience performing and/or planning scientific field data collection
• Experience working with remote sensing data
• Experience with QGIS or GDAL

You’ll love working at Perennial because:

• We live by our Core Values.
  • Speak your truths, welcome new voices.
  • Celebrate your successes, own your mistakes.
  • Solve important problems.
  • Invest in each other.
  • Build for the future.
  • Get your hands dirty!

• We challenge the status quo. We’re a group of people who want to create the changes we hope to see in the world. See some of our recent press about the problems we’re committed to solving. 

• We invest in your life. We want to provide you with resources to meet your needs both in and outside of work. We offer generous PTO, health, vision, dental, 401k, and HSA benefits and a fully stocked kitchen to keep your mind sharp throughout the day.

• We want you to grow. We are a team that supports each others’ professional and intellectual growth. You’ll have access to regular opportunities to learn from teammates and invest in your professional development.

• We offer competitive compensation packages. Our team is our most valuable asset. We want everyone who works for us to feel fairly compensated for the impact they bring to our mission. The team member in this role can expect a starting salary in the range of $60,000 - $90,000 alongside equity in the company.

• Perennial is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate and embrace diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.