Job description
What is Sylvera? 👩👨🌳
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 and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96 million from leading investors like Fidelity, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, and Insight Partners to date.
Sylvera’s Field Data Science team is pioneering new approaches to forest carbon measurement. Traditional methods rely on allometric equations—statistical models that estimate carbon storage based on tree measurements—but these can introduce significant uncertainties. Our team has developed innovative multi-scale lidar methods using cutting-edge terrestrial, drone, and airborne laser scanning technology to directly measure forest carbon, eliminating dependence on these conventional estimation models. Our dedicated field team collects data across diverse forest ecosystems worldwide, building what we believe is one of the most comprehensive and accurate forest carbon datasets available. These unique, globally-sourced reference data enable us to calibrate and validate Earth observations, unlocking delivery of accurate, timely and scalable insights on nature-based carbon projects, supporting better decision-making in the carbon markets.
What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
Over the coming year, in collaboration with the Woodland Carbon Code, Peatland Code and CivTech (Challenge 10.6), Sylvera will be collecting unprecedented volume of field data, to enable developers and investors to monitor project outcomes in a timely, accurate and low-cost manner. We’re looking for a dedicated lidar technician to strengthen our multi-scale lidar capabilities for initially 12 months, with possibility of extension.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Processing of forest lidar data collected by our field team, including co-registration of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS), and pre-processing of airborne laser scanning (ALS) data, using a mix of in-house and manufacturer (REIGL, Applanix) software.
- Quality assurance of individual tree segmentation from TLS data.
- Rigorous, punctual and consistent backup of large lidar datasets, and working together with the lidar scientists, engineers and the field team for fast delivery of high-quality lidar products at scale.
- Continuously improving our lidar tech; keeping track of developments in science and industry.
- Occasional travel to join data collection missions, test new hardware or data acquisition protocols, and train the field team.
We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚
- Gets excited to build the most accurate and comprehensive forest carbon maps ever, from multi-scale lidar data collected all across the world, using advanced tech.
- Has experience working with lidar data from forest ecosystems; particularly with TLS co-registration and ALS pre-processing.
- Preferably has experience with lidar data collection in forests, automatic tree segmentation and/or quantitative structure modelling.
- Is proficient with 3D point cloud tools (e.g. CloudCompare) and has coding experience (ideally Python).Wants to stay up-to-date on new developments in the scientific lidar community.
- Has a good understanding of forest ecology, GIS, and lidar principles.
- Willing and able to travel internationally for a couple of weeks on end on occasion.
- 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 💰
- Private Health Insurance and Life Assurance
- Unlimited annual leave
- 4 weeks/year work from anywhere
- Access to Mental Health support
- 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.
