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Field Forester, Gaia AI

About Us

We are currently building our team and hiring for a full-time, in-person Field Forester with the ambition to bring Gaia’s technology out to the forest. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to apply their skills towards fighting climate change, wants to experience the high-pace, high-ownership setting of an early startup, and can start onboarding immediately or within a few weeks. This is an in-person role in Boston, MA, but will involve plenty of travel and plenty of time out in the woods!

Climate change is one of the most meaningful challenges of our generation, and every possible solution put forward by the United Nations IPCC requires scaled carbon sequestration. Forests are critical for this reason, but they need to be managed for a growing set of values including sustainable wood production, carbon, biodiversity, and wildfire risk mitigation. We are an MIT climatetech startup applying autonomous vehicle technology to solve this problem, utilizing cutting edge sensors and perception AI to build the modern tooling needed to manage forests with great accuracy and confidence.

Job brief

We are looking for a purpose driven Forester to help us bring our technology to the forest. This is an amazing opportunity for an expert forester to join a well-positioned, ambitious technology startup, whose products will disrupt and shape the forestry market.

Field Forester responsibilities include bidding on and conducting forest inventories, representing Gaia AI at forestry conferences and events, demonstrating the technology to customers, and providing expert input into what metrics we output when processing raw point cloud, camera, and satellite imagery data, as well as surveying approaches coming out of academic labs and discussing state of the art approaches with our AI team. To be successful in this role, you should have experience with conducting forest inventories, and be familiar with tools and approaches used for forest measurements as well as general forest management. If you also have experience in a graduate program working on forestry data, or working with data at a timber company, we’d like to meet you. Ultimately, you’ll unlock the true value behind LiDAR and advanced sensors in forestry with a tech stack that is uniquely set up to do exactly that.

Responsibilities

• Place bids and travel to sites to conduct forest inventories.
• Demonstrate our technology to customers.
• Represent Gaia AI at forest conferences and events.
• Lead discussions on forest metrics for us to extract from raw data.
• Have discussions with academics to stay familiar with state of the art approaches in forest measurements, management and modeling
• Cooperate with our platform team and robotics team to suggest new features in our product.

Requirements

• Experience conducting forest inventories using traditional methodology and working with forestry data
• 2y+ of field forester experience
• Interpersonal skills for working well with a supportive team, and to be empathetic to customer needs
• Good time management
• Eagerness to learn / grow and yield results quickly
• Willing and excited to travel frequently across the US
• Must have a valid drivers license
• Must be able to be on the road for long periods of time and in short notice

Preferred Skills

• Advanced degree in Forestry
• Familiarity with recent academic research on improved forest management and/or biometrics
• Familiarity with leading forest management firms