ABOUT CLIMATE X

Climate X is a purpose-driven climate-risk analytics company on a mission to revolutionise how the world manages assets, property, and infrastructure in the face of climate change.
We fuse peer-reviewed science with machine learning, earth observation, and advanced climate modelling to project the frequency and severity of physical hazards, floods, subsidence, storms, heat stress, and more, at property-level scale. Our SaaS platform, Spectra, is trusted by global banks, insurers, and real-estate firms to assess how assets and portfolios could be affected by extreme weather, quantify the potential financial and valuation impacts, and make climate-resilient lending and investment decisions. Alongside Spectra, Carta maps company assets (and those of their subsidiaries) without requiring precise client geolocation data, unlocking climate-risk insights at unprecedented scale.
Backed by GV (Google Ventures) after a successful Series A, we’re scaling fast to build the planet’s most accurate and actionable climate-risk platform.

THE ROLE — DIRECTOR OF AI & ML

We’re looking for a Director of AI & ML to lead our applied machine-learning function and define how Climate X delivers technical excellence at scale.
This is a hands-on leadership post where you’ll set the ML strategy, steer the technical roadmap, and guide a talented team of five ML engineers (with future head-count growth tied to impact) as they bring models from prototype to production. You’ll work across generative AI, computer vision, geospatial data, and time-series forecasting, solving real-world problems that drive customer value.
You’ll partner closely with our climate risk Science team to marry ML with physical-modelling approaches. As a member of the leadership team, you’ll shape how we build, scale, and operate—playing a critical role in innovation, delivery, and culture as we grow. You will also collaborate with fellow Directors to cultivate the systems, habits, and culture that enable Climate X to thrive.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Set direction. Own and continually refine the AI & ML strategy and technical roadmap, collaborating with the Product team to ensure AI&ML adds value to our product roadmap.
• Lead & grow the team. Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ML engineers.
• Ship product impact. Drive GenAI development for Carta and future features, taking prototypes to production.
• Bridge Science & Engineering. Combine ML with physics-based risk models (flooding, tropical cyclones, wildfires) to deliver grounded, high-impact solutions.
• Raise the bar. Establish gold-standard practices for evaluation, deployment, observability, and maintainability in ML model development.
• Shape culture. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with other Directors to embed the rituals and behaviours that make teams exceptional.
• Scan the horizon. Evaluate emerging tools, methods, and regulations to keep us ahead of the curve.
• Translate value. Turn complex technical challenges into clear business outcomes for colleagues and customers.