Senior Data Scientist

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• Must have: 5+ years of work experience and a degree in data science, computer science, statistics, mathematics, quantitative ecology or a related field plus experience working with ecological/biodiversity data (e.g. camera trap images, passive acoustic monitoring recordings, vegetation surveys, animal surveys, species lists, soil carbon, biomass, remote sensing observation, climate etc.). • Must have: Strong Python for scientific data work – pandas or polars for data handling, plus the analysis stack (numpy, scipy, statsmodels, scikit-learn or equivalent). Comfortable writing validation scripts that catch schema mismatches early and explain clearly what broke. • Must have: Strong statistical reasoning, including an understanding of concepts such as confidence intervals, uncertainty estimation, GLMs, and discriminative machine learning models. • Must have: Confident in SQL, joins, CTEs, window functions. • Must have: Comfortable investigating data issues independently in pgAdmin, DBeaver, or similar. • Strongly desired: Able to handle spatial data in PostGIS, QGIS, and GeoPandas – raster algebra, coordinate reference systems and reprojection, vector versus raster, and the common ways location data breaks. • Strongly desired: Experience working with remote sensing data. • Nice to have: Experience with ODK, KoboToolbox, Survey123, or a comparable field data collection platform (ODK Central admin experience is a plus).