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By advancing science, building technology, and assembling a global coalition, we are catalyzing an initiative to scale Enhanced Rock Weathering within the next decade, starting in Brazil.\nFounded out of the Stanford University ecosystem, Terradot brings together expertise from industry, academia, and government to advance the science and technology of Enhanced Rock Weathering.\nTerradot has raised $58.2 million in funding from investors including John Doerr, Sheryl Sandberg and Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco, Floodgate, Kleiner Perkins, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital, Ponderosa Ventures, and others. We have sold approximately 300,000 tons in offtakes to carbon removal buyers including Frontier and Google.\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law\nAbout the Role\nTerradot is seeking a Data Scientist to develop geospatial models, statistical analyses, and quantitative products that support the measurement and scaling of our Enhanced Rock Weathering operations.\nYou will work with spatial, temporal, field, laboratory, remote sensing, and operational data to answer applied scientific and business questions. Your work may include exploratory analysis, model development, prediction, imputation, uncertainty estimation, experimental design, and the creation of reusable analytical workflows.\nThis role is designed for candidates who have developed strong quantitative foundations through a master’s degree and relevant applied experience, a second or third professional role in data science or a related field, or a PhD followed by a first or second industry role.\nYou do not need to arrive as an expert in geochemistry, carbon removal, or agriculture. You should be excited to learn the scientific domain, work closely with subject-matter experts, and translate complex data into rigorous and useful conclusions.\nYou will collaborate with scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and operational teams. Engineers will primarily own ingestion, orchestration, and warehouse infrastructure, while you will own geospatial and statistical analyses built on top of those systems.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDevelop geospatial and statistical models using field, laboratory, remote sensing, environmental, and operational data.\nAnalyze spatial and temporal variation across Terradot’s project areas and operating regions.\nBuild models for prediction, interpolation, imputation, classification, estimation, and inference.\nQuantify model uncertainty and communicate the assumptions, limitations, and practical implications of analytical results.\nDesign and evaluate statistically rigorous approaches for measuring carbon removal and related environmental outcomes.\nTranslate scientific questions into clear analytical plans, datasets, models, and decision-ready outputs.\nPartner with scientists to translate domain knowledge into model features, assumptions, constraints, and validation strategies.\nProduce maps, 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