Advertiser's description
Yard Stick is looking for a Principal Soil Scientist to help us fight climate change with soil. This role is Yard Stick’s first full-time, in-house scientist and an ideal candidate will lead the company’s experimental roadmap, publication strategy, and will be the organization’s primary coordinator of outside scientific collaborations. We are a small company with big ambitions, and therefore we need someone exceptionally entrepreneurial to help us build a mission-driven company alongside Yard Stick’s co-founding team.
Yard Stick’s mission is clear: We must replace lab analysis of soil carbon with in situ spectroscopy if carbon removal via soils is to have meaningful climate impact. Beyond markets, of course, improved quality of measurement will also increase our ability to understand the nature of changing soil carbon stocks around the world. Our Principal Soil Scientist will help develop and communicate the scientific basis for Yard Stick’s in-situ soil carbon measurement. In turn, this will enable soil carbon removal at gigaton/year impact across the globe.
This role will report to the CEO and can be based anywhere in US time zones with a priority for those in the SF Bay Area. It will include modest but fulfilling travel (including potential weeks-long trips to our lab in Oakland, CA for folks not based in the SF Bay Area) and market-rate salary and equity. We roughly expect this role to be 10% field work and 20% bench work, with the balance spent on planning, administration, data analysis, and reporting.
This is a dream job for an entrepreneurial, creative, adaptive scientist who wants to apply their expertise in a rapidly-growing startup with strong fundamentals and literal planetary-scale impact. This is a nightmare job for someone who has to be told what to do and wants to "work in industry."
Read more and apply here. There is no deadline, but the position will be filled as soon as possible.
