Convergent Research

Operations

• Guide project planning processes across programs to ensure clarity of priorities, timelines, and interdependencies.
• Track project status across initiatives, proactively flagging risk and improving cross-project communication.
• Reduce organizational risk by daylighting project blockers, coordinating managerial response, and ensuring disciplined follow-through.
• Directly manage the operations team, including the Scientific Operations Manager, Lab Manager, and Office Coordinator.
• Introduce and institutionalize best practices in operational management.
• Evolve internal processes to be scalable, robust, and resilient as the organization grows.
• Forecast resource needs 1–2 quarters in advance, including capital purchases and operational capacity.
• Strengthen planning cadence and execution discipline across teams.
• Review and approve invoices and bill payments.
• Review budget sheets and general ledger coding for accuracy and alignment.
• Support financial forecasting and expenditure discipline across programs.
• Oversee contracts related to partnerships, facilities, vendors, and contractors in coordination with legal and accounting partners.
• Provide direct supervision, coaching, and development to members of the operations team.
• Offer developmentally relevant feedback and mentorship to managers and senior contributors across the organization.
• Introduce best practices in personnel management, performance feedback, and accountability.
• Strengthen a culture of professionalism, mutual respect, and operational excellence.

Operations Lead

Machine Learning Engineer

• Establish the inner workings of Echo's technical stack.
• Build and maintain the data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and experiment tooling that power Echo's modelling work.
• Collaborate with a Director of Modelling & Data Infrastructure and the CTO to turn ecological data into model-ready inputs.
• Develop reproducible modelling pipelines as we iterate.
• Create a data and modelling infrastructure that enables rapid iteration and learning for ecology.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Director

• Design experiments that isolate signal from noise in ecological data, and design tests that can increment progress forward when results are ambiguous.
• Work with the CTO to prioritize intermediate outputs, publication opportunities, and risks.
• Work iteratively with the CSO to test and refine modelling approaches and uncertainty quantification that can be interpreted in ecological context.
• Define a standardization strategy that ensures model comparability across ecosystems and geographies.
• Translate ecological hypotheses from the CSO into testable ML experiments.
• Implement, train, and evaluate models that characterise ecosystem condition across multiple measurement modalities.
• Contribute to research outputs: white papers, technical documentation, and peer-reviewed publications.
• Working with a growing team under your management, you will develop and maintain the technical stack to ensure reproducible, rapid experimentation.
• Work with the leadership team to hire and lead additional engineers and data scientists.
• Evaluate and communicate needs and opportunities to creatively accelerate progress.
• Establish technical standards, code review practices, and documentation norms.

Director of Modelling

• Build and run the operational backbone that allows Echo’s scientific and technical teams to execute rapidly and at scale.
• Design, implement, and oversee internal project management and coordination systems, ensuring clear milestones, ownership, and reporting across scientific, technical, and operational workstreams.
• Establish day-to-day operating rhythms, supported by lightweight but robust internal infrastructure, enabling the organisation to scale without bureaucracy.
• Build a team to manage Echo’s first large-scale ecological field campaign, coordinating timelines, logistics, and dependencies to ensure readiness for a 2027 launch.
• Prepare and coordinate materials for the Board of Directors, including operational updates, budgets, and decision memos, working closely with the CEO.
• Act as Echo’s primary point of contact with Convergent Research on all administrative matters, ensuring smooth coordination across finance, HR, legal, and compliance functions.

Operations Lead

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Director of Modelling

Director of Operations