Machine Learning Engineer, Pivotal
Offers Equity
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Biodiversity data company
Job no longer available
Biodiversity data company
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Offers Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide the data people and companies need to invest in positive outcomes for nature.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree, or preferably higher, in Machine Learning, Computational Engineering, or another related technical field
- Minimum of 3-5 years hands-on ML development experience, creating and implementing computer vision and/or acoustics models
- Experience delivering in a commercial environment, and ideally experience working in startups
- A highly analytical and technical mindset, with experience in solving complex production problems to take research to production
- Up-to-date knowledge of current ML research and trends
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Google Cloud) for large-scale data processing
- Excellent communication skills and a people sensibility which enables you to work cross-functionally in roadmap planning, stakeholder management, requirements gathering and alignment with peers towards milestones and deliverables
- An entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building and growing a successful company, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- A desire to build ground-breaking technology to support the protection and restoration of the natural world
What the job involves
- Pivotal is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to play a crucial role in the development of solutions that scale machine learning to the next level
- It will be high visibility and impactful in building and scaling our data & analytics platform
- Join us in providing the data people and companies need to invest in positive outcomes for nature!
- Design, build and evaluate acoustic and computer vision algorithms and models suitable for use in our species identification pipelines
- Train, tune and debug production models, inform decisions on how to collect and synthesise training data
- Create data pipelines and MLOps frameworks that facilitate seamless deployment of ML models into production for large-scale dataset processing across cloud environments, ensuring scalability, efficiency and reliability
- Partner with product leads to develop and implement the technical vision and strategy, ensuring alignment of the ML strategy with Pivotal’s mission & commercialisation timelines
- Influence the development of the technical design and architecture of the stack
- Cultivate a culture of collaboration, impact, innovation, and health
Our take
With the worsening climate crisis, investment in biodiversity is critical, as much of the planet’s plant and animal life are necessary for creating products and services that many take for granted. This has resulted in an increase in funding for projects and start-ups that are focused on creating viable, practical solutions. However, in order for these solutions to not only be successful but to be developed at an accelerated rate, optimised data analysis processes are key.
Pivotal is reinventing the economics of biodiversity tracking to offer consumers and businesses with accurate, quantified, and auditable annotated species-level biodiversity data and analytics. The company’s approach links ecological improvements to sizable financial incentives, thus supporting the development of new sustainability-related markets.
Its 2023 seed funding round saw investments from some of Europe’s leading VCs and environmental advocates, enabling the young company to invest in expanding its team as it accelerates into its next stage of growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2023
$6.2m
SEED
Total funding: $6.2m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Competitive employee participation program
- Remote-first company
Company HQ
King's Hedges, Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Cameron Frayling
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Co-Founder of Biofidelity, Founder of Lightcast Discovery, and Founder & former CEO of Base4.
Zoe Balmforth
(Co-CEO & Co-Founder)Current Strategic Deputy Director (Nature Strategy) at The Biodiversity Consultancy. Previously served as a British Diplomat and Senior Policy Advisor for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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