Geospatial Data Scientist (Intern)

What is Sylvera anyway? ‍👩‍👨🌳

Sylvera provides trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action. 

Purchasing carbon credits and CDR through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the carbon markets were plagued with mistrust and a lack of effectiveness since they’ve emerged – until Sylvera.

To help organizations ensure they're making the most effective investments, Sylvera Trusted ratings, tools and data for carbon credits and CDR. Our data and software independently and accurately validates the impact of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emission whether they are up and running, or in development. Our data and tools allow users to optimise both the climate and economic performance of projects as well as understand the past and future of the market. With Sylvera businesses, governments and developers can confidently invest in, benchmark, deliver, and report real climate impact.

Our team is made up of leading minds in climate change from scientists to policy, finance, and carbon market experts. We work in partnership with scientific organizations, universities, governments, and think tanks to develop and implement rigorous and holistic project assessment methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. We also partner with actors and institutions across the whole market to make data higher quality, more standard and more accessible. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 130+ employees globally with offices in London, New York, Belgrade, and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96 million from leading investors like Fidelity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners to date.

What will I be doing? ‍‍👩‍💻👨‍💻

We’re looking for a mission-driven, high-potential intern who’s excited by interdisciplinary work and eager to learn. This role sits within our Applied Solutions Team, a group of engineers and analysts working directly with customers, product, and commercial teams to rapidly solve real customer problems.

The work will be fast-paced, hands-on, and varied from building new datasets to integrating them into minimum-viable-products or custom solutions for some of our most strategic clients. You’ll have the chance to contribute to projects that are shaping the future of climate solutions.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing project documentation and extracting key data

• Supporting client deliverables such as slide decks and reports

• Performing spatial analysis and statistics on geospatial datasets to identify trends across space and time

• Acquiring, cleaning, transforming, and modeling geospatial data for repeated use

• Contributing to data analysis, MVP development, or one-off analyses for strategic clients, partners, or enterprise prospects

• Researching scientific literature and economic publications to extract variables relevant to geospatial analysis

• Learning new scientific and technical domains quickly (with support from the team)

• Labeling geospatial data to support service testing and prototyping

• Collaborating with Marketing, Sales Enablement, and Product teams to explore broader applications of your analysis and help graduate prototypes into the product roadmap

• Working with Marketing, Commercial, and Product on wider applications of analysis or to support graduation of prototypes into the main product roadmap

We’re looking for someone who:

• Able to answer geospatial questions programmatically using open-source libraries (vector and raster formats)

• Comfortable working in Python and SQL (experience in software development using these is a plus)

• Experienced in creating training data and developing machine learning algorithms using high-resolution satellite imagery

• Enthusiastic about geospatial data science and keen to deepen your skills

• Strong quantitative analytical skills, with demonstrated experience in spatial statistics

• Experience in climate science, natural risk, or meteorological modeling is a plus

• Experience with causal inference is a significant bonus

• A self-starter with strong interpersonal skills, able to collaborate in a fast-moving, high-uncertainty environment

• Practical work experience of any kind whether in hospitality, manufacturing, startups, or professional services

• Deeply cares about the climate and the ecosystems of our planet

We’d like someone highly ambitious, motivated and eager to propel their career forward. We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description

Benefits 💰

- Equity in a rapidly growing startup

- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance 

- Unlimited annual leave 

- Enhanced parental leave 

- Access to Mental Health support via Spill

- Office bar tab once a month

- Weekly drinks in the office

- Catered lunch once a month in office

- Monthly Deliveroo/equivalent allowance once a month

Location 🌍 

London, Old Street. We foster hybrid working and require you to physically attend all 1-2-1, retros and divisional meetings in person.

Our Values 🙌

Own it: We make new mistakes. We build on the momentum of our wins and reflect on and learn from our failures.

Stay curious: We keep our focus on the long-term, even if that means short-term challenges.

Do what’s right - even when it’s hard: We take a growth mindset to our work, our customers, our market and the opportunities ahead of us. 

Collaborate and challenge with empathy: Our teams deliver through active collaboration. We invest in each others’ success and make the company stronger in the long-run.

Empower Customers: Make extraordinary efforts to exceed our customer expectations. If we’re serving our customers to the fullest, we can help direct more investment into real climate impact.

What if you’re a partial fit? 🌱

We prioritise grit, positivity, and the willingness to get stuck in, and encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't exactly match this job description. 

Equal employment opportunity 🌈

Sylvera is an equal opportunity employer: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.