CHLORA Operations Analyst
Tuning, monitoring, and analysis of CHLORA — the Cultivation, Health, Logistics & Response Automation assistant — translating facility telemetry into reliable automated action.
Role Summary
The CHLORA Operations Analyst is the human steward of the facility's automation brain. CHLORA ingests the full PhytoSense Mesh feed across the Mycelial Data Fabric and decides on irrigation, dosing, climate, and response actions; this analyst monitors those decisions, tunes the models and thresholds behind them, and investigates every case where CHLORA's automated action diverged from the right action. The role lives at the CHLORA control console and the live operations dashboard, and is accountable for the analytic quality of the alerts that drive cultivation and containment response.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor CHLORA's automated decisions through the CHLORA control console and live dashboard; confirm actions and intervene on anomalous control output.
- Tune CHLORA detection models, alert thresholds, and response policies against ground-truth from the Botanical Tracking Metrics set, validating every change in staging before production cutover.
- Reduce false-positive and false-negative alert rates against the Alarm Matrix, targeting ≤ 2% missed-event rate on containment-critical signals.
- Analyze Aggression Index and Canopy Vitality trends to forecast intervention demand and brief Cultivation and Containment leads.
- Investigate CHLORA decision divergences and telemetry gaps across the Mycelial Data Fabric; produce root-cause reports with corrective model/threshold actions.
- Serve the analyst on-call rotation (1 week in 5), triaging P1 automation incidents within 20 minutes and protecting containment response paths first.
- Build and maintain operational dashboards, queries, and reports for cultivation yield, alert performance, and Containment Integrity.
- Partner with Bio-Systems Engineering on telemetry quality and with Biosafety on breach-detection policy.
Required Qualifications
- B.S. in data science, statistics, computer science, biosystems, or a quantitative life science; 3+ years in analytics, ML ops, or control-system data.
- Strong applied statistics and time-series analysis; fluency in a query language and a scripting stack for data work.
- Experience tuning detection/alert systems and reasoning about precision/recall trade-offs in an operational setting.
- Current CHLORA Operator certification (or ≤45d) and able to obtain GCL-3 clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in agritech, controlled-environment agriculture, or industrial process analytics.
- Experience with anomaly detection, forecasting, or reinforcement/closed-loop control.
- Familiarity with the PhytoSense sensor stack and biomimetic mesh data.
Certifications Required
Certification curricula are delivered through the Verdant Academy; currency is tracked on the HR Training Matrix.
| Certification | Status at Hire | Renewal |
|---|---|---|
| CHLORA Operator | Required (or ≤45d) | 24 months |
| PhytoSense Operation | Required ≤90d | 24 months |
| Toxin Handling Tier 1 | Required ≤90d | Annual |
| Emergency Response — Basic | Required ≤90d | Annual |
Physical & Hazard Requirements
- Extended console/visual work; tolerate on-call interruption and rotating coverage.
- Occasional escorted entry to GCL-2/3 bays for sensor ground-truthing; wear PPE per bay grade.
- Pass GCL-2 medical fitness.
Compensation Band
Career Path
CHLORA Operations Analyst (S2) advances to Senior Analyst (S3) and CHLORA Programs Lead (S4), or laterals to Bio-Systems Engineer (VC-HR-J041) for the engineering track and Greenhouse Climate Engineer (VC-HR-J055) for the actuation/control track.