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title: 'Machine Learning Research Engineer at OXMAN'
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# Machine Learning Research Engineer at OXMAN

- **Company:** OXMAN
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $142k–$224k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-02-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/oxman/8d2ecefe-ee75-4e0d-bbc3-e3436b05b86a/application

**Skills:** Geospatial Machine Learning, Deep Generative Models, Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Science, Operations Research, GIS tools, Remote sensing technologies

> Develop machine learning models for geospatial inference and deep generative design to optimize ecosystem performance. Collaborate with ecologists and designers to integrate AI-driven insights into real-world environmental projects, ensuring alignment with ecological metrics like carbon sequestration and biodiversity.

## Job description

## OXMAN

OXMAN is a nature-based research and design company based in Manhattan. We incubate ventures and technologies that reimagine the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Working across disciplines—from architecture and ecology to materials science and computation, we develop nature-centric solutions to critical environmental challenges.

## EDEN

Nature provides humanity with services that are critical for survival: the sequestration of carbon, the filtration of water, and the production of the air we breathe. EDEN works to strengthen and regenerate these natural processes by cultivating biodiverse, resilient ecosystems that sustain life for all species—human and non-human alike. EDEN is a digital design environment for engineering and designing ecosystems, modeling the flows, relationships, and processes that sustain them. We build tools that quantify how landscapes can be engineered to achieve specific performance goals, cooling cities, filtering water, sequestering carbon, and protecting key species, and use them to guide the design of ecologically active sites. One hectare of well-designed landscape can sequester up to four times the annual emissions of an average home, filter enough water to support thirteen neighborhoods, and reduce ambient temperatures by more than ten degrees. EDEN enables designers to plan intentionally for these outcomes through analysis, simulation, and optimization, turning ecological function into an actionable design parameter. Our design team works directly with clients to apply these tools toward site-specific goals, from logistics campuses and residential communities to rewilding and climate-resilient developments. Together with our clients, we are designing biodiverse, productive environments that serve both humanity and nature.

## Key Responsibilities

- Develop machine learning models for geospatial inference of key ecosystem metrics, leveraging geospatial AI to synthesize environmental data into actionable parameters for ecosystem design and simulation.
- Develop and refine advanced deep generative models and reinforcement learning algorithms for built-environment design.
- Contribute to decision-making frameworks that combine procedural generation with ML and data-driven optimization.
- Collaborate with computational ecologists and data scientists to integrate generative design with ecosystem simulation models.
- Align design outputs with ecological performance indicators such as species richness and carbon sequestration.
- Prepare detailed technical documentation and contribute to model validation using empirical ecological data.

## Key Goals and Outcomes

- Research and development of high-fidelity Geospatial AI models for the automated inference of ecosystem metrics across varied scales.
- Utilize inferred geospatial data to drive the computational synthesis and design of functional, resilient ecosystems.
- Establish a robust pipeline for integrating remote sensing and geospatial data into generative design workflows.
- Deliver scalable ML frameworks that provide real-time or near-real-time feedback on ecological performance (e.g., carbon sequestration and biodiversity).
- Develop innovative design methods that support and enhance ecological processes through data-driven optimization.

Required Experience

- Proven experience developing and deploying geospatial machine learning models, deep generative models, or RL algorithms in practical research problems.
- Ph.D. or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operations Research, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience working in cross-functional teams bridging ML research with ecology, architecture, or design.

## Preferred Experience

- Experience with GIS tools and remote sensing technologies for geospatial analysis.
- Prolific corpus of digital or physical expressions rooted in process-driven research and design.
- Industry experience combined with a background in leading research and producing striking work.

Technical Skills

- Commitment to Nature-centric principles and a willingness to integrate technology and ecology.
- Enthusiasm for pushing boundaries in design and science with innovative thinking.
- Self-directed with an aptitude for nurturing collaborative teamwork across disciplines

Required Education/Certifications

- Ph.D. in a relevant field (CS, ML, OR).

## About OXMAN

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OXMAN is a design company fusing design, technology, and biology to invent multi-scale products and environments that empower synergy between Nature and humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup/Early Stage)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (787 Eleventh Ave)
- **Founded**: 2024 (public launch)
- **Founders**: Neri Oxman

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Design Services, Biotechnology, Materials Science, Architecture
- Target customers: B2B (corporate partners, industry clients), Academia, and Nature as a "co-client"
- Mission or purpose statement: To shift from human-centric design to Nature-centric design, creating design solutions by, for, and with Nature while advancing humanity. The company aims to heal the rift between Nature and humanity.

## Products & Services
- **O° Shoe (The O Shoe)**: A 100% biodegradable shoe made without petrochemicals, producing zero microplastics. Unveiled in October 2024. Represents the company's platform technology applied to consumer goods.
- **Platform Technologies**: R&D arm that invents platform technologies enabling design and production "by, for, and with Nature." These platforms can be applied across industries and scales—from consumer goods to urban plans, pharmaceuticals to apparel, organisms to rockets.
- **Design & Consulting Services**: Activist design practice that partners with industry and academia to implement Nature-centric values across design, manufacturing, construction, and operational practices.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding — Not publicly disclosed
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goodman Group (partnership to explore design for ecosystem biodiversity and resilience), Foster + Partners (designed the OXMAN lab in NYC)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~24 employees (+4.5% YoY growth); active job postings; public launch in October 2024 with significant press coverage; first product (O° Shoe) unveiled; partnership with major real estate group Goodman Group

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founder & Brand**: Founded by Neri Oxman, a world-renowned designer, architect, and former MIT Media Lab professor, giving the company immense credibility and a powerful network.
- **Interdisciplinary Approach**: Uniquely combines hardware, software, and "wetware" (biology) in a single practice, integrating an atelier, workshop, and lab.
- **Nature-Centric Design Philosophy**: A radical differentiator positioning Nature as a "co-client," moving beyond sustainability toward regeneration and synergy.
- **Platform Technologies**: Cross-scale, hierarchical design tools that can be applied across multiple industries, creating a defensible IP moat.
- **First Mover in Biodegradable Materials**: The O° Shoe is a tangible proof point of their platform's capability, addressing the massive microplastics problem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Platform Development**: Scaling their platform technologies for broader industry application across multiple sectors.
- **Partnerships**: Leading corporate partners in implementing Nature-centric values across their operations (e.g., Goodman Group).
- **Product Commercialization**: Bringing the O° Shoe and other bio-integrated products to market.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Building a world-class interdisciplinary team of designers, engineers, scientists, and makers.
- **Thought Leadership**: Advancing the "Nature-centric design" philosophy as a new paradigm for the design and construction industries.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven Culture**: A clear, bold vision to heal the rift between Nature and humanity. Work is framed as a "calling" with profound impact.
- **Interdisciplinary Excellence**: Opportunity to work at the intersection of design, engineering, biology, and computation with a world-class team.
- **Creative & Intellectual Freedom**: Emphasis on taking risks, exploring "impossible" challenges, and pursuing profound questions.
- **Values**: The company culture emphasizes integrity, empathy, mediation of dichotomies (design/R&D, made/grown), balancing the timely and timeless, and pursuing the profound.
- **Work Environment**: Based in a first-of-its-kind atelier, workshop, and lab in New York City, designed by Foster + Partners.
- **Team Composition**: Small (~24 people), highly specialized team with backgrounds from MIT Media Lab, top universities, and leading design/tech firms. Emphasis on self-direction and collaboration across disciplines.
- **Location**: New York City (HQ) with presence in France. Hybrid/office policy not explicitly stated but likely in-person given the lab/workshop nature.

## Sources
1. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/company)
2. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/mission)
3. [oxman.com](https://oxman.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/oxman)
5. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oxman-unveils-the-o-shoe---a-100-biodegradable-shoe-made-without-petrochemicals-producing-zero-microplastics-302290648.html)
6. [prnewswire.com](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/neri-oxman-launches-oxman-a-revolutionary-practice-transforming-design-generation-manufacturing-and-construction-for-the-simultaneous-benefit-of-humans-and-the-natural-environment-302264818.html)
7. [fosterandpartners.com](https://www.fosterandpartners.com/news/foster-partners-and-neri-oxman-complete-the-groundbreaking-design-and-innovation-lab-for-oxman)
8. [goodman.com](https://www.goodman.com/news/2024/oxman-partnership)

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