Remote Sensing Scientist

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 Remote Sensing Scientist to join our Earth Analytics team. You'll bring scientific credibility, technical fluency, and a customer focused mindset to accelerate our geospatial product development. Your work will focus on rapid prototyping and feature development based on customer requests, ensuring our earth observation and remote sensing outputs meet both commercial expectations and scientific standards.

Specific responsibilities will include:

• Designing and delivering remote sensing based product features that are scientifically robust, scalable, and responsive to user needs
• Acting as a scientific point of contact for remote sensing and earth observation for commercial stakeholders, with professionalism and clarity
• Supporting the evolution of remote sensing pipelines and models, particularly those tied to forest carbon and land use methodologies
• Collaborating with engineers, scientists, and product managers to ensure features are both technically feasible and impactful
• Maintaining a balance between scientific rigor and commercial responsiveness, enabling faster delivery while protecting long-term product quality

We're looking for someone who:

• Has a PhD or equivalent industry experience in remote sensing, geospatial data sciences, environmental sciences or related discipline
• Brings practical experience building or supporting data-driven products or tools, ideally in a fast-paced or early-stage environment
• Experience with MRV protocols for forest-based carbon measurement, IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories to quantify carbon stock change in AFOLU systems, and NBS carbon standards such as VCS, GS, and CAR
• Familiar with field inventory and terrestrial lidar data collection methods, allometric models, and uncertainty quantification.
• Is comfortable engaging with non-technical stakeholders and customers, explaining scientific methods with clarity and diplomacy
• Has experience with geospatial & remote sensing data (multispectral, SAR and LiDAR) for applications such as biomass and carbon estimation, land cover dynamics, and early-warning systems
• Experience with open source Python geospatial stack (Rasterio, Geopandas, Xarray etc)
• Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earth
• Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience

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.