Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Wildfire

Overstory is addressing the climate crisis by developing technology for a resilient electrical grid. As a Staff Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the development of the Wildfire Fuel Detection Model, collaborating with teams to ensure the models are accurate and production-ready while mentoring other engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and build advanced ML models to map and predict vegetation and fuel conditions across diverse geographies
• Design and maintain robust data and feature pipelines for large-scale geospatial and temporal data
• Partner with wildfire science and product teams to define modeling objectives and evaluation metrics tied to real-world impact
• Build reproducible experimentation frameworks and model evaluation workflows
• Scale models from research to production with a focus on performance, reliability, and explainability
• Lead the evolution of ML systems, tooling, and processes — ensuring that our wildfire fuelscape models remain state-of-the-art and maintainable
• Collaborate with MLOps peers to streamline training, inference, and monitoring in production environments

Requirements:

• Experience thriving at the intersection of machine learning, geospatial data, and environmental science; deeply motivated by the opportunity to reduce wildfire risk through data-driven insights
• 10+ years of experience designing and building production-grade ML pipelines and systems
• Strong background in deep learning, computer vision, or remote sensing
• Skilled in designing end-to-end ML systems — from data ingestion and preprocessing to deployment and monitoring
• Hands-on experience with frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, or LightGBM, and data tools like Dask, Spark, or GeoPandas
• Familiarity with GCP and Vertex AI, or similar cloud-based ML platforms
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and scientific domains
• Comfortable leading architectural discussions and mentoring other engineers
• Background in wildfire science, forestry, or remote sensing
• Experience integrating physics-based models with ML or working with active learning and uncertainty quantification
• Experience in model interpretability and data provenance for environmental ML systems
• Experience with deep learning models for weather or climate data
• Experience in remote-first or globally distributed teams