Lead Data Scientist

SatSure is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to drive the next generation of geospatial intelligence models powering critical products across agriculture, forestry, finance, infrastructure, utilities, energy, and climate. This is a senior hands-on technical leadership role responsible for solving complex Earth Observation challenges using advanced ML/CV, and leading teams toward state-of-the-art, production-ready solutions. About SatSure SatSure is a deep-tech decision intelligence company that leverages Earth Observation (EO) data to solve crucial problems across agriculture, forestry, finance, infrastructure, utilities, aviation, energy, and climate, to name a few. Our goal is to create meaningful impact with a focus on the developing world. We aim to make insights from Earth Observation data accessible to all. With a founding team rooted in the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), and a leadership team with diverse industry experience (IBM, Samsung, Intel, USC, IITKGP, IITB, IITG, IITM), we value technical innovation and scale. If you are interested in working in an environment focused on societal impact, driven by cutting-edge technology, and offering the freedom to innovate and be creative with no hierarchies, SatSure is the place for you. Roles & Responsibilities As a Lead Data Scientist , you will: ● Own technical charters and roadmap for multiple ML/CV initiatives. ● Lead and mentor applied scientists, mapping complex EO problems into actionable, scalable decision systems. ● Drive hypothesis generation, experimentation, architecture design, model development, and deployment for production ML pipelines. ● Own E2E delivery of large-scale ML/CV systems - from problem framing to data design, model development, deployment, and monitoring. ● Collaborate with Product, MLOps, Platform, and Geospatial experts to convert ambiguous requirements into elegant solutions. ● Communicate technical findings to leadership, customers, and cross-functional partners with clarity and precision. ● Assist in effective project, resource management, and timely deliverables (in an agile manner), via showcasing strong sense of ownership and accountability. ● Build reliable, efficient models that scale across geographies, seasons, sensors, and business domains. ● Write clean, scalable production-grade code in Python/PyTorch. ● Conduct A/B experiments and calibrate ML metrics to business KPIs. ● Innovate on model architectures (Transformers, diffusion, generative, time-series ,models, self-supervision, multimodal fusion and temporal modeling) to advance in-house ,geospatial ML SOTA. ● Represent your work through patents, technical documents, internal whitepapers, and publications (as applicable). ● Contribute to hiring and technical excellence, including mentoring junior team members and interns. Required…