This is an extraordinary opportunity to get to use cutting-edge big data and machine learning toolswhile doing something good for the planet and open-sourcing all your code.

SkyTruth is seeking an engineer to join the team that is building Global Fishing Watch which is a partnership of SkyTruth, Oceana and Google, supported by Leonardo DiCaprio, and dedicated to saving the world’s oceans from ruinous overfishing [Wired], Our team works directly with Google engineers that support Cloud ML, TensorFlow and DataFlow and we are a featuredGoogle partner.

cloud.google.com/customers/global-fishing-watch/

environment.google/projects/fishing-watch/

blog.google/products/maps/mapping-global-fishing-activity-machine-learning/

Your jobis to develop, improve and operationalize the multiple pipelines we use to process terrabytes of vessel tracking datacollected by a constellation of satellites. We have a data set containing billions of vessel position reports, from which we derive behaviors based on movement characteristics using Cloud ML, and publish a dynamically updated map of global commercial fishing activity.

You will join a fully distributed team of engineers, data scientists and designers who are building and open sourcing thenext generation of the productand who are very committed to creating a positive impact in the world while alsosolving novel problems usingcutting edge tools.

The company is headquarteredin Washington DC, the data science team is in San Francisco, and we have engineers in the US, Europe, South America and Indonesia. Daily scrums are scheduled around east coast US timezone (so that kind of sucks for the guy in Indonesia 🙂

Becausethis is open to remote work, we will get a lot of applicants. We are not just looking for anengineerwith great skills that wants to work with cool tech. We also want you to be inspired by the project, so please tell us something that excites you about what we’re doing when you contact us.

Here’s some more stuffyou can read about the impact our work has:

New York Times: Palau vs the Poachers

Science: Ending hide and seek at sea

Washington Post: How Google is helping to crack down on illegal fishing — from space