Junior Field Scientist
We are looking for a Junior Field Scientist to support field operations and research trials in Assis - SP. This role will assist with data collection and organization for soil solid, soil porewater, climate, rock powder and crop performance, and help maintain experimental equipment such as soil moisture sensors, lysimeters, and weather stations.
This position is ideal for someone with a background in Agronomy, Soil Science, Environmental Sciences, or related fields, who enjoys hands-on work and is interested in applied science and sustainability.
Location: Assis – SP
Languages: Portuguese (English at an intermediate level preferred)
Role Responsibilities:
Support field science activities in commercial fields and R&D experimental pilots and help implement agricultural trials and experiments.
Assist with data collection and organization related to soil porewater, climate conditions, rock powder and crop performance (biomass and yield).
Help install, maintain, and monitor field equipment (e.g., soil sensors, lysimeters, weather stations).
Prepare soil, water, rock and crop samples for laboratory shipment.
Follow scientific protocols and accurately record field activities.
Communicate with scientists and project managers in basic technical English, with support from the team.
Work collaboratively with field and science teams.
Background & Requirements:
Master's degree (or bachelor's with strong experience) in Agronomy, Soil Science, Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, or a related field.
Previous experience in fieldwork on agricultural trials.
Basic understanding of field data collection related to soil, soil pore water, and crops.
Familiarity with field sensors and instruments is a plus.
Ability to read and write basic technical English.
Attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and commitment to data quality.
Valid driver's license and availability to travel to rural field sites frequently (70% of the time) .
Nice to have:
Hold a MSc degree in Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural Engineering, Soil Science or related fields
Familiarity with field equipment/sensor calibration
Familiarity with the interpretation of soil/agronomic data
Personal attributes:
Actively support the field team in collecting high-quality data.
Independently solve practical logistics issues during fieldwork.
Maintain clear communication with technical staff.
Follow protocols and adapt methods based on scientific guidance.
About Terradot:
Our mission is to stabilize Earth’s climate by transforming nature’s most powerful permanent carbon removal process into a global climate solution. By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing a global initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.
Founded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot is led by the world’s leading experts to advance the science and technology of ERW. Our unique structure bridges industry, academia, and government and allows our team to contribute with speed & scale. We have raised $58.2M in total funding from John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco and Venture Funds, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures and others. We have sold ~300,000 tons in offtakes from leading CDR buyers like Frontier and Google.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Research suggests that qualified people from historically marginalized groups may self-select out of opportunities if they don't meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.
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What We Do
Over millions of years, silicate rock weathering has regulated Earth’s climate. By crushing silicate rocks and spreading them on agricultural soils - an approach called Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) - we can accelerate Earth’s natural process into a solution capable of addressing the urgency of climate change.
Existing agricultural and silicate rock sites - namely 5,000+ global silicate rock quarries surrounded by agricultural land - have the potential to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 with enhanced rock weathering. Despite this potential, ERW hasn’t scaled given the extraordinary scientific, technological, and operational challenges involved. Terradot, founded out of the Stanford ecosystem, is addressing these challenges by advancing the science, building the technology, and assembling the coalition needed to make this potential a reality.
We’ve started in Brazil – one of the world’s most optimal locations for ERW thanks to its tropical soils, strength in agriculture, and clean electricity grid. There, we are building the most ambitious ERW hub to date. This hub will drive the necessary breakthroughs in ERW science, ensuring every tonne of carbon dioxide removed is measured and tracked with certainty.
These insights will power digital tools for the optimization and verification of carbon removal projects, enabling the replicability of these hubs globally If successful, this approach will uniquely and rapidly catalyze global-scale carbon removal, enabling the transformation of [300] such quarries in Brazil and [5,000+] global quarries into carbon removal hubs.
Terradot has assembled a growing team of leading scientists and engineers with decades of published research (over 100,000 citations on ERW) and hands-on expertise in related fields, providing unmatched experience to drive advancements in ERW.
