Plant Systems and Field Scientist
$75k/y-$225k/y
OXMAN2 days ago
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Summary
OXMAN is seeking a Plant Systems and Field Scientist to join their interdisciplinary team exploring the boundaries of design, ecology, and technology. This role is central to developing ecological intelligence for high-performance environments—natural, built, or hybrid.
About the Role
As a Plant Systems and Field Scientist, you will lead scientific research and field data acquisition that feed into the simulation, design, and prototyping of ecologically embedded systems and interventions. Your responsibilities will include monitoring and maintaining plants, leading field campaigns to collect ecological data, designing and managing sensor networks, and collaborating across disciplines to translate ecological findings into design solutions.
About You
Required:
- MS or PhD in Plant Science, Ecology, Environmental Science, Forestry, or related field.
- 3–5+ years of field-based ecological research experience, with a strong foundation in plant systems.
- Demonstrated experience collecting and analyzing data from hyperspectral imagery, thermal imaging, LIDAR, or satellite sources.
- Proficiency in tools such as QGIS, ENVI, R, Python, or Google Earth Engine.
Preferred:
- Strong communication and documentation skills for interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Experience developing or managing native plant lists for restoration, conservation, or design projects.
- Familiarity with trait-based ecological modeling or agent-based simulations.
- Knowledge of ecosystem services indicators (e.g., carbon sequestration, albedo, transpiration, resilience).
- Experience working with soil health data, weather station data, or phenocams.
Benefits
- Competitive salary range of $75k–$225k based on experience and qualifications.
- Variable compensation in the form of year-end bonuses, benefits, immigration assistance, and equity participation.
- Full-time, permanent position with travel required to project field sites.
OXMAN
Envision a future of complete synergy between Nature and humanity, where human-made and Nature-grown become indistinguishable. OXMAN is a new kind of company fusing design, technology, and biology to invent multi-scale products and environments—allowing design to empower science and science to empower design. As activist designers, we call for a fundamental shift from human-centric design to Nature-centric design. Categorical delineations between climate change and global pandemics, loss of biodiversity and loss of empathy for one another give way to authoring systems that address manifold challenges. Through this shift, we open ourselves up to moving beyond mere maintenance of Nature toward its radical betterment.
New York, NY