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ML Engineer

Vibrant Planet · Remote USA · Remote

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About Vibrant Planet

Vibrant Planet provides land management services and technology solutions to accelerate land restorations. Backed by Energy Excelerator.

About the role

Vibrant Planet ( https://www.vibrantplanet.net/ ) harnesses data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of global change. Our ML Engineering team sits at the intersection of machine learning, remote sensing, and forest ecology—building the models, pipelines, and data products that power our Land Tender decision-support platform.

What they're looking for

  • • M.S. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Remote Sensing, Data Science, Ecology, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent work experience)
  • • 3+ years of experience developing, training, and deploying deep learning models (PyTorch preferred)
  • • Strong Python proficiency including data science stack (NumPy, pandas, xarray, scikit-learn)
  • • 3+ years of experience with geospatial data processing (rasterio, GDAL, geopandas, shapely)
  • • Experience building and maintaining data pipelines with workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, or equivalent)
  • • Proficiency with Git, GitHub, and collaborative software development practices (code review, CI/CD)
More about this role

Employment: Full-time

We are a team of leaders in fire science, applied science, forestry, policy, and tech who work with land managers, community risk managers, utilities, and insurers to drive action that lowers the risk of destructive wildfire. Our cloud-based, AI-driven platform modernizes land management planning, community risk assessment, and monitoring through scenario building, decision support, and treatment outcome detection.

Our fire science subsidiary, Pyrologix, produces leading wildfire science and models that quantify wildfire hazard and risk, and the benefits of mitigation action. This science powers the core Vibrant Planet platform and supports our work across utilities, insurance, and other sectors.

Vibrant Planet is backed by climate and resilience leaders including Grantham Foundation, Earthshot, Elemental Excelerator, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Cisco, and Halogen Ventures. For more information, visit vibrantplanet.net and pyrologix.com .

Vibrant Planet ( https://www.vibrantplanet.net/ ) harnesses data-driven science and cloud-based technology to help make communities and ecosystems more resilient in the face of global change. Our ML Engineering team sits at...

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