coastal scientist - geomorphology and nearshore hydrodynamics

Coastal Assembly is using AI to scale adaptive coastal resilience and protect the world’s shorelines. Our intelligence, living infrastructure guides the ocean’s own energy, turning erosion into accretion and regeneration. We are expanding our core team, looking for scientists and engineers to help bring this approach to shorelines around the world.

• Optimize Coastal Assembly’s fluid modeling workflows, working in close collaboration with material scientists and automation engineering.
• In the short term, own the design process for active projects; optimizing and validating modeling approaches.
• In the mid-term, generalize site-specific science into a transferable framework spanning a wide variety of coastal contexts, developing surrogate approaches for physics-based modeling.
• In the long term, lead innovation in adaptive, nature-based, habitat-building structures that collaborate with ocean dynamics to regenerate eroding shorelines.

• Deep expertise in coastal geomorphology and nearshore hydrodynamics: wave/current interaction, sediment transport, morphodynamic modeling.
• Expert-level CFD modeling at scales ranging from wave-resolving simulation around structures to regional hydrodynamics and sediment transport patterns.
• Genuine interest in adaptive, nature-based infrastructure, including engineered protection systems that work with coastal ecosystems and the ocean’s own energy.
• Creativity, curiosity, and a commitment to support resilient coastal communities for future generations.

Shorelines are eroding faster than traditional engineering can respond. Our first protection systems are in the water at active customer sites, and now we need to rapidly adapt the approach for sites around the world. The science you generalize becomes the framework that protects coastlines far beyond our first projects.

We are a small team of scientists, engineers, and builders. It started in a tank at MIT; it now runs on satellite observation, field instruments, and models validated against the real ocean. We prize curiosity, honest uncertainty, and continuous learning from real world experimentation, all in order to ship impactful science to threatened shorelines.