.Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on. Overstory's mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet's vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation. Today, we proudly partner with 40+ leading utilities worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities, to help reduce wildfire risk and increase grid reliability to prevent power outages. If you want to have a real impact and solve some of the world's most complex challenges with advanced technology, come work with our talented and passionate team. Overstory is a remote-first company, with people living all over the U.S. and Europe. We're looking for a USA based mid-career arborist to work closely with our Lead Arborist on analyzing imagery to identify tree species and health. What you'll do Identify declining trees on satellite images Identify tree species on satellite images Quality control the work of our team (ex. correct tree species, hazard trees, tree height, vegetation encroachment, and overhang, etc.) Your experience Experience as an arborist, ideally ISA Certified Arborist. You're well versed with GIS tools like QGIS and ArcGIS. Experience interpreting tree characteristics from satellite images. You have a strong attention to detail. Exceptional verbal, written and visual communication skills in a fast-paced environment. You're a team player that seeks out feedback. Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Contract 10 or 20 hours per week available For a period of 12 weeks to start with About our team We are a group of 62 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden and Canada. Diversity & Inclusion We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem. We're always looking to diversify our team further, but we're proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Cantonese, Estonian and Korean. Our values Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission. We act with urgency. Our curiosity fuels our growth. We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration
