Geospatial/Science Intern: Forward Deployed team
What is Sylvera anyway?
Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.
Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been 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 builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments 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 organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has employees worldwide with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date.
What is Sylvera anyway?
Sylvera provides carbon data for genuine climate impact. Our mission is to incentivize investment in real climate action.
Purchasing credits through the carbon markets is one of the most established and scalable ways to channel finance from the private sector to effective climate solutions and work toward societal net zero. Unfortunately, the voluntary carbon markets have been 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 builds software that independently and accurately automates the evaluation of carbon projects that capture, remove, or avoid emissions. With Sylvera's data and tools, businesses and governments 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 organisations, universities, governments and think tanks to develop and test rigorous and holistic ratings methodologies, leveraging the latest technology. Founded in 2020, Sylvera has 150+ employees across the world with offices in London, New York, Belgrade and Singapore. We’ve raised over $96million from leading VCs like Balderton Capital, Index Ventures and Insight Partners to date.
What will I be doing?
We’re looking for an extremely high potential, mission-oriented and ideally interdisciplinary Science intern with some past exposure to geospatial and/or ecology data and tools.
This role will be in our forward deployed team: engineers and analysts that work alongside our product and commercial teams to rapidly and responsively solve customer needs.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Extracting critical parameters from scientific literature in different domains.
- You must be comfortable with ecology research papers
- You must also be able to get up to speed with different scientific domains, with the support of the team, to extract key information intelligently
- Labeling geospatial data (Using provided tooling after appropriate training) to support testing and prototyping of services
- Contributing to MVP development or one-off analysis for strategic clients or partners, or major enterprise prospects to accelerate deals
- Working with Marketing, Sales Enablement and Product on wider applications of analysis or to support graduation of prototypes into the main product roadmap
The work is guaranteed to be interesting and challenging, involving prototyping new datasets and techniques for our most strategic clients. Note, for blocks of up to 4 weeks at a time there will be highly repetitive elements to this work so please do not apply if you are not ok to do this!
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has a STEM degree
- Is looking for a 6 month internship starting immediately. - - This role is only open to those available to convert to a full-time role at Sylvera longer term at the end of the internship
- Is very enthusiastic about Science and Engineering across multiple disciplines
- Has exceptional quantitative analytical skills including very strong Excel/sheets skills
- Has the ability to produce practical solutions to answer questions quickly
- Has good interpersonal skills and able to collaborate in an environment of fast iteration and high uncertainty
- Has experience in a practical work environment, which could equally be a bar, manufacturing environment or a startup or professional services environment
- Cares deeply about the climate and ecosystems of the earth
- Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments.
Additional Information
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
- Unlimited annual leave - and encouragement to actually use it!
- Enhanced parental leave- Up to 20 days paid sick leave
- No corners cut in having the best tech to do your job
- Access to Mental Health support via Spill
- Monthly team socials
Location
London - this role will be based out of London office, five days a week.
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 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 and positivity 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.
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
Location
London
Our Values
Own it:
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.
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