Join us on our journey

 
 

Wanted: impatient optimists to make a lasting impact on our planet

 
 

We have less than 35 growing seasons to double food production in order to meet the needs of a nine-billion+ population. Yet Earth’s soil fertility is rapidly degrading and climate volatility is increasing, with the impacts being felt on the frontline by producers, enterprises relying on land-based processes, insurance companies pricing risk, and governments setting policy.  

 

Cervest is combining the vast knowledge developed within the Earth science community with the progress of  AI, and subsequently expanding our understanding of the planet, for the benefit of humanity and plant life. We are building an AI-powered platform that will enable our users to make better ‘risk aware’ decisions through predictive analytics, climate simulations, and by providing personalised climate signals. 

 

We are searching for like-minded individuals who want to make a difference, build extraordinary analytics, and transform lives through Earth Science AI.

 

At Cervest, you’ll find a team of impatient optimists who are passionate about creating a lasting and positive impact on our planet – through cutting-edge machine learning, maths, science and data. 

 

Are you thinking about a career that uses the power of technology, science and data to create a more sustainable world? A workplace where you can make a real difference to your team and the global community?

 

We’d love to hear from you.

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Open positions

Jobs: Platform Engineer

by | Jan 17, 2020 | Jobs

Location: London; some flexibility.  Salary: £65-75k p/a + benefits We have less than 35 growing seasons to double food production in order to meet the needs of a nine-billion+ population. Yet Earth’s soil fertility is rapidly degrading and climate volatility is...

Jobs: Science Research Resident

by | Dec 19, 2019 | Jobs

We are a team of impatient optimists who want to make a lasting, positive and sustainable impact across the planet - by doing science! We believe the benefits of scientific thinking should be accessible, affordable and used to empower those managing nature’s resources...

Jobs: Data Engineer in Science Team

by | Dec 19, 2019 | Jobs

Cervest is an ambitious start-up with a mission to do good – we are trying to fix some of the problems that the Earth and humankind face with regard to sustainability, risk and waste in the food and agriculture. It’s a big challenge, and it’s why we’ve built a...

Jobs: Mid-Level Front End Engineer

by | Dec 18, 2019 | Jobs

We're seeking a front end engineer to join our team at an exciting time for our business. You'll be helping to grow our success as an AI-first platform, building infrastructure, user interfaces and visualisations that will consume the outputs from computational...

Ernesta Baniulyte 
Product Designer

Ernesta has been a full-stack product designer for more than five years. She has valuable experience in the B2B, B2C and B2B2C worlds, and while working at both agencies and product/service companies, she has learned to develop UX research infrastructures to support strategy.

At Cervest, Ernesta contributes to all stages of the product development process – from initial ideation to the exacting detail of UI design – finding new ways to visualise data, and ensure our product is intuitive and user friendly.

Ernesta’s decision to join Cervest was inspired by her desire to make the world a safer, better and more aware place.

Ramani Lachyan 
Junior Research Scientist

Ramani joined Cervest after obtaining her Master’s in Physics from ETH, Zurich. She brings with her valuable experience gained through working on model building and data simulation pertaining to neutrino physics.

Ramani has joined Cervest as a Junior Research Scientist and will be working on creating algorithms that allow for the extraction of physical observables from data from a range of sources.

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Lukas Scholtes 
Statistical Scientist

Lukas completed his maths BSc at ETH Zurich, followed by an MSc in statistics at Imperial College. He wrote his MSc thesis in collaboration with Cervest, on the modelling of North American wheat yields via Bayesian parametric and non-parametric methods.

Following an internship in the NGO sector in Bangladesh and a stint in the world of fintech, Lukas comes to Cervest, excited to apply himself to the challenges that are arising as a consequence of unsustainable land-use policies and climate change.

Aidan Coyne
Junior Researcher

Aidan is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Science and Engineering at University College London with a focus on computer science and data informatics.

At Cervest, Aidan is working on researching and assimilating a database of articles categorising the reasons for extreme decreases in crop yields across Europe. The information will be used to help predict the impact of weather events on crop yield and contribute to  Cervest’s ability to bring clarity to decision making around climatic and extreme events.

While studying, she also volunteers with environmental conservation groups and youth engagement programmes.

Jasmine Thompson
Engineering Resident

Jasmine’s background is primarily in Python programming with a focus on data analysis and visualisation.

Since graduating, she has worked on data insights for a London-based dating app startup, helping the company understand the user base and guide new growth. She is now excited to use her skills to help Cervest deliver playback data and useful data analysis and is passionate about the potential of data science, machine learning and visualisation tools.

While studying at Westcliff High School for Girls she was involved in a variety of projects including GUI design for BAE Systems and data collection for a surveillance vehicle project sponsored by Leonardo S.p.A. She was also the Data Analyst for a long-running Southend Youth Council project that advocated for students having better mental health services in school.

Stoyan Binev
Junior Software Engineer

Stoyan is a BSc student at King’s College London with two years’ experience in software engineering.

With experience working for Amazon and Google as a software engineer, as well as for a fintech start-up, Stoyan was inspired to join Cervest’s by its planet-wide scale and the opportunity to make a positive impact in the world.

He is currently finishing his degree and dissertation while also specialising in data processing at Cervest.

Agnes Schim van der Loeff
Policy Researcher

Agnes joined Cervest after completing her BA in Arabic and Development Studies from SOAS University of London. She is interested in the intersection of the social, economic and political dimensions of climate change and passionate about climate justice. During her studies she was also engaged in environmental activism, including as environment officer in the SOAS students’ union.

Agnes started at Cervest as a research resident exploring the ethical implications of AI in relation to climate change, which resulted in a paper selected for an oral presentation at the NeurIPS 2019 workshop on AI for social good. Building on this, she is developing an ethical framework for Cervest. As policy researcher she now does research on the regulatory context of Cervest’s work and on emerging policies relating to climate change. 

Kate Chkhaidze
Machine Learning Scientist

Kate joined Cervest after completing her PhD study at the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London. Her Project was on statistical and computational modelling of cancer evolution. Her educational background is in pure mathematics (BSc – Tbilisi State University) and statistics (MSc – Imperial College London). Before deciding to study for a PhD, she worked as a junior analyst/developer at the Bank of Georgia and in parallel was giving lectures in Statistics to undergraduate students in Tbilisi for almost two years.

At Cervest, she will be working as a Machine Learning Scientist on crop classification problems. She loves the mission and goal of the company and is very excited to be a part of the process of achieving it.