About LRX

LRX develops landscape restoration and protection projects that treat nature as critical infrastructure.

We acquire degraded and under-protected land, restore ecosystems, generate high-integrity carbon and biodiversity credits, and set each property up for long-term stewardship. We work alongside our sister charity Barbaloot (which protects the Southern Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby), and respected Australian philanthropic conservation organisations. 

We are a startup led by nature, with a small founding team working across ecology, land management, data and capital. We are early enough that the right person will shape the backbone of the company.

Our work has to hold up on the land and in the evidence. Our maps, field notes, monitoring records and investor reports all need to describe the same reality.

The role

This is a role for someone who loves to work across ecology, maps and code.

You will build the internal tools, spatial workflows and data pipelines that help LRX find better land, screen opportunities faster, run cleaner due diligence and monitor projects as they change over time.

Some days you may be in GIS. Some days you will be writing scripts, building dashboards, cleaning field data or using AI-assisted development to turn a tricky recurring task into a usable tool. You will communicate and share information with regulators, consultants and auditors, ensuring our projects are credible and successful.

You do not need to arrive as a senior ecologist. You do need environmental instinct, a tech and spatial brain, and the appetite to learn from people who spend their lives in the field. This is a practical building role inside a small team. 

What you'll do

• Own LRX's day-to-day GIS and spatial workflows: site screening, constraints and opportunity mapping, field maps, site packs and data QA.
• Build and maintain internal tools, dashboards, automations and data pipelines, for example with Python, modern web tools and AI-assisted development. 
• Turn repeat consultant work - land-screening heatmaps, desktop constraints checks, monitoring summaries - into capability we own.
• Support the design of LRX's internal platform: ecological data, property records, decision logic, dashboards and clear evidence trails.
• Integrate field data streams such as survey records, camera-trap outputs, eDNA, drone imagery, LiDAR or remote sensing as our monitoring grows.
• Work with the Director of Ecology and Conservation, and the Field Operations Director to translate field reality into useful, repeatable systems. Work alongside the CEO to manage our property pipeline and accompanying diligence.
• Help a small founding team move faster: meeting notes, coordination, file hygiene, consultant follow-up and the occasional unglamorous but necessary administration task.

What you'll bring

• Roughly 3-5 years' experience in GIS, spatial analysis, environmental data, ecological technology or a related role.
• Strong GIS skills, with ArcGIS and/or QGIS, and confidence handling spatial datasets without making a dog's breakfast of them.
• Enough coding or scripting ability to build simple tools and automations, ideally in Python or similar.
• Significant experience using AI tools to enhance development while ensuring output is accurate and reliable
• A real interest in ecology, conservation and Australian landscapes.
• Good organisation, reliability and taste.
• Melbourne-based, or willing to be.

Useful, not mandatory

• A degree or background in ecology, environmental science, geography, conservation, data science or similar.
• Experience with Field Maps, Survey123, mobile data capture or field survey workflows.
• Experience with databases, SQL, Supabase, APIs or modern web frameworks.
• Familiarity with remote sensing, LiDAR, drones, camera traps, eDNA or biodiversity monitoring datasets.
• Interest in carbon, biodiversity credits, Accounting for Nature, the Nature Repair Market or other nature-market frameworks.
• Experience in a startup, small team or research environment where no one hands you a perfect brief.

How we work

This role is Melbourne-based. We are a small team working to build something big, so it is not a fully remote role. You should expect to be with the team regularly, with occasional travel to project sites in NSW and Victoria.

There will be flexibility, but the job works best when you can sit with the people doing the field and commercial work, understand the problem quickly, and build alongside others.

Who we welcome

We are building a team with multiple backgrounds and perspectives.

We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, women and people from backgrounds under-represented in conservation, land management and technology. If you are close but not sure you tick every box, apply anyway. We care more about judgment, curiosity and output than perfect credentials.

Why join now

Many technology roles put you a long way from the thing your work is supposed to change. This one does not.

You will build tools that help decide which land we restore, how we manage it, and how we prove the outcomes over time. Your work will become part of how the company scales.

Acknowledgement of Country

LRX acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters on which we work, including the Ngarigo, Taungurung and Wiradjuri peoples. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. We are restoring Country that has been cared for over many tens of thousands of years.