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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 17, 2026
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Job Description
Fervo is seeking a Seismologist to lead the design, deployment, and processing of surface and borehole seismic monitoring networks across our EGS development portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Surface and Borehole Geophone & Seismometer Networks
- Design, deploy, and maintain surface and borehole geophone and seismometer networks.
- Set network geometry and instrumentation to meet detection, location-accuracy, and completeness targets.
- Own instrument response, sensor orientation and calibration, timing, and continuous data QC.
- Run automated detection, phase picking, and event association across the network.
- Build and maintain 1D and 3D velocity models and station corrections.
- Manage field campaigns, vendor scopes, and data-delivery standards.
- Earthquake Location, Relocation, and Catalog Development
- Run HypoDD for double-difference relocation.
- Run GrowClust for relative relocation and hierarchical clustering.
- Generate waveform cross-correlation differential travel times and maintain automated relocation pipelines.
- Determine source parameters — magnitude, focal mechanism, moment tensor, and stress drop.
- Interpret relocated seismicity as fracture geometry, stimulated volume, and fault reactivation.
- Maintain a versioned production catalog with documented magnitudes, completeness, and uncertainty.
- Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) — complementary observing system
- Incorporate DAS data from instrumented wells alongside the conventional network.
- Perform joint DAS and sensor processing where it improves the catalog.
- Interpret DAS response in a borehole setting, including its resolution limits.
- Induced Seismicity, Hazard, and Risk
- Track b-value and magnitude of completeness, and forecast seismicity rates and maximum magnitude.
- Develop real-time hazard algorithms using physics-based, statistical, and machine-learning methods.
- Maintain traffic light protocols and mitigation strategies with operations.
- Link observed seismicity to Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical reservoir models.
- Represent Fervo with regulators, partners, and communities on induced-seismicity questions.
Requirements
- High Performance Computing and large-scale distributed processing of continuous seismic data.
- Machine learning applied to seismological problems, including deep-learning phase pickers.
Benefits & Perks
- Fervo offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. Benefits for eligible employees include:
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage
- A 401(k) plan with a dollar-for-dollar company match
- Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave
- Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot
- A dependent care FSA for eligible child and elder care expenses
- An annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care
- Employee ownership opportunities through Fervo’s Employee Stock Purchase Program, as well as stock option grants and bonus opportunities for eligible roles
- Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may change.
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