Disaster Impact Researcher
Menlo Park
Data Science – Data Science /
Full Time /
One Concern is a Menlo Park-based benevolent artificial intelligence company with a mission to increase the global community's resilience to natural hazards. Founded at Stanford University, One Concern enables cities, corporations, and citizens to embrace a disaster-free future through AI-enabled technology, policy, and finance. By combining data science and natural phenomena science we are pursuing a vision for planetary-scale resilience, where everyone lives in a safe, equitable, and sustainable world.
One Concern is growing rapidly and we are looking for a passionate and motivated Disaster Impact Researcher to join our team. In your role, you will join our ongoing efforts in identifying use of data-based technologies in modeling, monitoring, and forecasting disaster impacts, including acquiring multi-faceted and high-resolution datasets about cities across the globe in a scalable and cost-effective manner. These technologies and datasets become the foundation of our inventory models, improve the accuracy of our modeling of impacts from natural hazards, help governments make important data-driven decisions about evacuation and mitigation, and enable our services to be deployed anywhere in the world.
Daily responsibilities to include:
- Researching new technologies, data sources, and sensors for data acquisition
- Creating different tiers of scalable and global data acquisition strategies
- Monitoring impacts from natural hazard events, and researching data acquisition and modeling strategies for different types of impacts
- Collaborating and building relationships with other research organizations and data providers to co-develop models and acquire data
- Maintain a pipeline to store acquired data, process it, and make available to the team for retrieval
Must-haves
- We love to hear what you have done, even if it’s not for work!
- We want to see that you understand how disasters impact people and property, and the challenges of collecting data in new regions and different cultures
- We also want a strong focus on mission and being able to use technology to benefit local communities
- 2-3 years of related experience working with technologies like remote sensing, disaster impact assessment, vulnerability modeling
- You enjoy creative and structured problem solving
- You like the challenge of working on complex challenges, and are capable of breaking a larger problem into sizeable, edible chunks to work onYou're comfortable with ambiguity and not well defined objectives
Bonus points if you have
- You have worked with GIS tools like QGIS and are able to store and process large geospatial and temporal datasets
- Worked with Lidar data, sensor fusion, multi-band satellite data and depth estimation
- Strong research background with ability to independently manage and execute projects
- Experience with field data collection post disasters
- Experience in machine learning, deep learning and computer vision models
- Professional experience in at least one programming language like Python, R, C++, MATLAB
Perks and Benefits
- Market-competitive salary plus equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily catered lunches, and a fully-stocked kitchen
- Generous PTO policy
- Team off-sites
- Flexible working hours
