Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on. Overstory’s mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation. Today, we proudly partner with 40+ leading utilities worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities, to help reduce wildfire risk and increase grid reliability to prevent power outages.
We have already proven our business model and we’re all united behind our ambitious vision to scale up this model to help humanity and the planet. We closed a $14 million Series A, led by B Capital and welcoming The Nature Conservancy to our collective of climate-minded investors. This milestone includes additional investment and continued support from Convective Capital, Semapa Next, Bentley iTwin Ventures, Pale blue dot, CapitalT, Moxxie Ventures, and Overwater Ventures
If you want to have a real impact and solve some of the world's most complex challenges with advanced technology, come work with our talented and passionate team. Overstory is a remote-first company, with people living all over the U.S. and Europe.
As a GIS contractor at Overstory, you will be responsible for processing large amounts of geospatial vector data. Specifically, power lines data. You will use and build tools to achieve high efficiency. You will have to balance speed with quality.
You’ll spend most of your time working in ipython notebooks to get vector data in the right format by cleaning, removing and augmenting the data. You’ll need to map attribute names in the data to attributes that are required downstream. It will be necessary to work on multiple datasets in parallel, switching between them as you get blocked. You’ll be working as part of the Data Ingestion team, and will attend daily standup meetings.
You are comfortable working with Python code and Jupyter notebooks to solve geospatial problems. You have experience working with geospatial vector data using libraries such as Geopandas and Shapely. You are familiar with GitHub, and tools such as Slack, Notion, Google Suite.
Your written and verbal English communications skills are excellent, and you have empathy and understanding of different roles in the company. You manage your own time effectively, across multiple projects and occasionally under pressure, able to prioritize short and long term activities with a strategic approach.
You have strong attention to detail and you are well-organized, keeping many files in the right places and clear documentation up-to-date.
You are flexible and ready and able to learn new things, and able to quickly adapt to new working practices and technologies.
You have experience working efficiently, managing your time to meet deadlines and deliver high quality results.
Your experiences have given you a strong capacity to work through trade-offs, to make decisions, to prioritize, and to choose and implement practical solutions. You will face challenges with pragmatism, finding creative ways forward, and putting them into practice.
- You are fluent in English.
- You have at least 2 years of relevant experience
- You are comfortable with Python for spatial data management
- You are creative and curious.
- You are pragmatic, you know when a simple solution is sufficient or when new development is required
- You are a strong communicator, able to express your ideas succinctly. You make complex ideas accessible to others
- You can talk to software engineers and data engineers. You have an eye for quality, your work is thorough, and you pay attention to both the small details and the larger picture.
- Teamwork is at your core, and you like to help others grow and succeed
- Ideally, you’re in a time zone +/- 1 hour from CET
- Experience working with GIS data in public or private utility
- Knowledge about electric utilities
- Experience in a remote team
- To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
- Flexible fully remote working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
- To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
- 40 hours per week - full time
- For a period of 12 weeks to start with
We are a group of 62 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, France, Sweden and Canada.
We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.
We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Cantonese, Estonian and Korean.
We act with urgency.
We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.
We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.
We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.
What We Do
Overstory is on a mission to become the standard in predictive planet intelligence. Understanding every m² on Earth.
The planet is under pressure. Data-driven information is needed to improve decision making about our natural resources. By applying machine learning to satellite imagery Overstory creates insights about the quantity and quality of forests and other natural resources
