About the role

  • Director of Modelling at Echo Labs, designing data pipelines for ecological intelligence and leading interdisciplinary research. Collaborating with executives to translate ecological data into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

  • Design experiments that isolate signal from noise in ecological data, and design tests that can increment progress forward when results are ambiguous.
  • Work with the CTO to prioritize intermediate outputs, publication opportunities, and risks.
  • Work iteratively with the CSO to test and refine modelling approaches and uncertainty quantification that can be interpreted in ecological context.
  • Define a standardization strategy that ensures model comparability across ecosystems and geographies.
  • Translate ecological hypotheses from the CSO into testable ML experiments.
  • Implement, train, and evaluate models that characterise ecosystem condition across multiple measurement modalities.
  • Contribute to research outputs: white papers, technical documentation, and peer-reviewed publications.
  • Working with a growing team under your management, you will develop and maintain the technical stack to ensure reproducible, rapid experimentation.
  • Work with the leadership team to hire and lead additional engineers and data scientists.
  • Evaluate and communicate needs and opportunities to creatively accelerate progress.
  • Establish technical standards, code review practices, and documentation norms.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in machine learning, data engineering, or applied research with end-to-end system ownership.
  • Track record with machine learning infrastructure and experiment tracking, model versioning, reproducible pipelines.
  • Experience with multimodal data. At minimum two of time-series sensor data, audio/acoustic data, imagery, or geospatial/remote sensing.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and MLOps tooling.
  • Demonstrated ability to scope problems, make architectural decisions, and deliver without close supervision.
  • Strong scientific communication. You have the ability to explain technical choices across domains and document work for reproducibility.

Benefits

  • Performance-based bonus

Job title

Director of Modelling

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

£145,000 - £168,000 per year

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

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