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# Open application at The Upright Project

- **Company:** The Upright Project
- **Location:** Helsinki, Finland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2022-10-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/uprightproject/df34a251-420f-42d7-b90d-25899688cf45

## Job description

We are always looking for people who can help us take our product and business to the next level.

The ideal next addition to our team would have an exceptional analytical mind combined with a clear skill spike in one of the following areas:

- Hardcore quantitative + qualitative problem solving (e.g. building a model to better understand complex phenomena)
- Creating outstanding digital tools/products
- Web development, data engineering, or other code mastery

## WHAT WE OFFER

- A chance to join a quickly growing and highly ambitious impact SaaS company with a mission that matters
- A fun and kind team with exceptional people who care about what they do
- Exciting professional growth opportunities
- Competitive compensation, including a comprehensive healthcare package

## MISSION THAT MATTERS

Upright is on a mission to incentivize companies to optimize their net impact by enabling science-based decision-making for investors, customers, employees, and public sector agents. To do that, Upright develops a proprietary data model based on an open-access database of 200M+ scientific articles and artificial intelligence to quantify the net impact of companies on people, planet, society, and knowledge creation. In addition to net impact, Upright produces data on UN SDG alignment, EU taxonomy, and EU SFDR PAI indicators. Currently, our impact data platform is used by 1,000+ institutional investors and companies, such as Nasdaq, Nordea, EQT and Nokia.

If you have any questions, please email us at recruiting@uprightproject.com

## About The Upright Project

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Upright Project quantifies the net sustainability impact of companies using science-based models and a vertically-trained AI engine, enabling investors, businesses, and advisors to make data-driven decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; $5.3M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Helsinki, Finland
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet (sustainability impact data & intelligence)
- **Target customers**: B2B – companies, financial institutions, advisors, and asset managers
- **Mission**: “Make it financially more attractive to run a net positive company than a net negative one.”

## Products & Services
- **[Upright Platform](https://www.uprightproject.com/)**: SaaS platform that provides audit-ready, science-based impact, risk, and opportunity quantification for any company or fund. Trained on 300M+ scientific papers and a proprietary knowledge graph of the global economy.
- **[Vertically-Trained LLM for Sustainability](https://www.uprightproject.com/)**: A proprietary AI engine built specifically to size companies’ sustainability impacts, risks, and opportunities. US patent pending. Designed to prefer scientific research over commonly repeated claims.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of USD 5,312,085 (Seed round led by Planet A Ventures and First Fellow Partners in December 2022; Pre-Seed in October 2019)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Planet A Ventures, First Fellow Partners. Key board member: Risto Siilasmaa (Chairman).
- **Growth Signals**: Used by 300+ companies, financial institutions, and advisors. Recently launched the first vertically-trained LLM for sustainability. Headcount of 37 (as of mid-2026, down 15.4% YoY). Active hiring for technical roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Science-grounded data**: Model is trained on scientific literature (CORE database) rather than relying solely on company self-reports, giving it credibility and a 100% audit pass rate.
- **Unique knowledge graph**: Covers all products and services in the global economy, including value chain dynamics, enabling granular impact allocation by revenue.
- **Modular architecture**: Profiles can be built for individual products, companies, funds, or portfolios – a rare capability in the sustainability data space.
- **Patent-pending AI**: First LLM vertically trained for sustainability, offering a defensible technology moat.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first engineering**: The engineering workflow is built around AI agents, with teams focusing on system design, hard analytical problems, and teaching agents to perform reliably.
- **Scaling impact intelligence**: Expanding the use of the vertically-trained LLM to serve more clients and use cases (e.g., CSRD double materiality, SDG alignment).
- **Autonomy and ownership**: The company values “impossible” problem-solving and gives team members substantial ownership from day one.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “a bit bananas” about solving a hard problem. High ambition, autonomy, and a preference for sharp, self-driven individuals who thrive on raising the bar.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid – office locations in Helsinki (Uudenmaankatu 7b and Annankatu 27). Small team (37 people) with a flat structure.
- **Engineering culture**: Heavy use of AI agents; engineers spend most time on system design and analytical challenges rather than boilerplate work. Open roles: Member of Technical Staff (Data Science) and Member of Technical Staff (Software).
- **Perks**: Opportunity to work on a mission-driven problem with real-world impact, alongside top talent from Aalto University, McKinsey, BCG, and other high-performing organizations.

## Sources
1. [uprightproject.com/careers](https://www.uprightproject.com/careers/)
2. [uprightproject.com](https://www.uprightproject.com/)
3. [linkedin.com/company/the-upright-project](https://linkedin.com/company/the-upright-project)
4. [uprightproject.com/mission](https://www.uprightproject.com/mission/)
5. [jobs.lever.co/uprightproject](https://jobs.lever.co/uprightproject)

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