ML Team Lead, Climate X
3 days a week in office
Climate risk intelligence and analytics
Be an early applicant
Climate risk intelligence and analytics
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.
Role
Who you are
- 3 + years leading applied ML teams, following a strong hands-on IC career
- Proven track record of shipping ML to production and driving real product impact
- Fluency in Python and modern ML libraries (PyTorch, scikit-learn, etc.)
- Depth in one or more of: GenAI, computer vision, geospatial or time-series ML
- Excellent judgement on trade-offs, risk, and delivery pace
- Strong communication skills, able to partner effectively with Product, Engineering, Science, and Commercial teams
- Start-up mindset, thrives in lean, high-growth teams and rolls up sleeves to own problems end-to-end
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a ML Team Lead to lead our applied machine-learning function and define how Climate X delivers technical excellence at scale
- This is a hands-on leadership post where you’ll set the ML strategy, steer the technical roadmap, and guide a talented team of five ML engineers (with future head-count growth tied to impact) as they bring models from prototype to production
- You’ll work across generative AI, computer vision, geospatial data, and time-series forecasting, solving real-world problems that drive customer value
- You’ll partner closely with our climate risk Science team to marry ML with physical-modelling approaches
- As a member of the leadership team, you’ll shape how we build, scale, and operate—playing a critical role in innovation, delivery, and culture as we grow
- You will also collaborate with fellow Directors to cultivate the systems, habits, and culture that enable Climate X to thrive
- Set direction. Own and continually refine the AI & ML strategy and technical roadmap, collaborating with the Product team to ensure AI&ML adds value to our product roadmap
- Lead & grow the team. Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ML engineers
- Ship product impact. Drive GenAI development for Carta and future features, taking prototypes to production
- Bridge Science & Engineering. Combine ML with physics-based risk models (flooding, tropical cyclones, wildfires) to deliver grounded, high-impact solutions
- Raise the bar. Establish gold-standard practices for evaluation, deployment, observability, and maintainability in ML model development
- Shape culture. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with other Directors to embed the rituals and behaviours that make teams exceptional
- Scan the horizon. Evaluate emerging tools, methods, and regulations to keep us ahead of the curve
- Translate value. Turn complex technical challenges into clear business outcomes for colleagues and customers
- Core hours 10am-4pm
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Climate change is one of the most pressing global issues and the UK has already set the way for clean and green growth and established a National Adaptation Programme. Therefore, there has been a rise in climate-tech companies developed in the UK to address these issues. In comparison to ESG-assessment platforms or climate fintechs focused on cleaner investment and climate mitigation, Climate X aims to change the way the world manages assets, property and infrastructure through a new vertical of climate adaptation software. They are modelling climate effects that are inevitable due to past and current greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate X works through an API which simulates multiple climate projections and then estimates how these climate projections would damage the assets. The platform then quantifies this damage and models the impacts' valuations and cashflows. Its models update automatically and self-calibrate in response to the latest available scientific data and are built on a cloud-based architecture for seamless access, secure data exchange and integration.
The future of Climate X is promising, as it is working with the UK’s leading climate scientists, AI specialists, financial services professionals and the London School of Economics. Adding to its strong position, a Series A of $18M awarded in 2024 will be used to grow its market share internationally. If successful, Climate X will save customers millions of pounds, helping individuals and organisations to be more resilient to climate change, meet incoming regulatory requirements and make smarter investment decisions.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% female employees
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$18.8m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$5.5m
SEED
Total funding: $25.8m
Company values
- Customer Empathy
- Deep Diversity
- Empowered Ownership
- Team & Belonging
- Purposeful Impact
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Kamil Kluza
(Co-Founder & COO)Kamil leverages over a decade of expertise in climate risk analytics, regulatory compliance, and financial strategy to empower organisations to tackle climate impacts with data insights.
Lukman Ahmed
(Co-Founder & CEO)Over nine years at HSBC, Lukky led risk and transformation initiatives worldwide. As CEO, he's brought 4 years of impact-driven leadership, building climate resilience for global financial services.
People progressing
Aatish joined as a Data Engineer in 2021 and has since become the Director of Engineering, leading and expanding the team with 15 new hires, including new DevOps and Data Engineering functions.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Climate X
Lukky Ahmed (CEO and Co-founder)
- Diversity matters: we’re feeling very strongly about diversity with founders and existing team members coming from a variety of backgrounds. We’re not building just a team but a place of innovation where brains and fun coexist to address the biggest challenge our society is facing now.
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