About the Company

BWI is an impact startup on a mission to use data and machine learning to provide governments and companies with river flow forecast services in order to help better adapt to the impact of climate change on water management and availability.

About the Role

We're looking for a Hydrologist (F/H) to join our team.

• At least 5 years of relevant work experience,
• Strong teamwork and communication skills, both written and verbal,
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset,
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with key stakeholders (including frequent field visits in France and abroad) to develop new models and features, to train users, to organize workshops on our approach,
• Contribute to hydrological model development, both internally (CTO and R&D team, sales team, marketing team, finance team) and externally (partner research labs),
• Take part of client success meetings to deliver a true and fair vision of model performance,
• Train models, and make documented recommendations to improve models,
• Steer research work performed by partner research labs as scientific committee member,
• Define and execute Calibration and Validation strategies for both downstream and upstream company activities,
• Review models as trained by peers.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have a solid scientific background in hydrology, hydraulics, meteorology, hydrogeology or hydro-agronomy. A relevant PhD thesis is always welcome, but a solid engineering background will do too.

She/he must be proficient in company core skills:

• Scientific modeling,
• Analyzing the quality of input data (weather forecasts, ground truth, satellite imagery, altimetry...),
• Running validation campaigns and writing subsequent performance reports.

Some skills are needed:

• Experience with writing code in Python,
• Expertise in remotely sensed data,
• A perfect command of both English and French (languages) is mandatory.

The hydrologist will be encouraged to publish academic papers (posters, abstracts), as author or co-author along with our partner research labs, and to attend relevant science conferences.

Pay range and compensation package

Details: Location: Toulouse and mainly onsite (not full remote), or Paris (onsite too).

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity.