Careers
At Dark Moss, we design landscapes that serve a purpose—both today and for generations to come. We’re landscape architects, arborists, and planners working across parks, streetscapes, infrastructure, and natural systems. Our team brings a practical mindset to every project, balancing performance, durability, and beauty.
We're growing, and we're looking for driven professionals who are eager to take responsibility, lead meaningful work, and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing studio environment.
What We Value
- Technical clarity – Our work starts with understanding how things are built and how they’ll perform in the field.
- Technical clarity – Our work starts with understanding how things are built and how they’ll perform in the field.
- Ecological literacy – We design with soils, roots, water, and seasons in mind.
- Curiosity – We support ongoing learning and cross-disciplinary growth.
- Responsibility – We expect team members to own their work, stay organized, and support the people around them.
- Team orientation – No one succeeds here alone.
- Civic accountability – We approach every project with an understanding of its regulatory context and public impact.
Current Opportunities
ISA CERTIFIED ARBORIST - CONSULTING TRACK
Dark Moss is hiring a full-time ISA Certified Arborist to join our consulting arboriculture team.
The role will begin with field support, tree inventories, site assessments, documentation, and project coordination. Over time, this person will train with our consulting arborists and learn the office, regulatory, and technical side of consulting arboriculture, including report preparation, tree preservation planning, permitting workflows, and construction-related arborist analysis.
This role is a good fit for someone with real arboriculture experience who wants to move into consulting and understands that consulting starts with accurate fieldwork and disciplined documentation.
Responsibilities
In the beginning, your work will focus on:
- Assisting with tree inventory fieldwork on residential, commercial, municipal, transportation, and development-related sites
- Navigating project areas using maps, aerials, site plans, or field direction
- Identifying tree species and measuring DBH accurately
- Recording basic tree condition observations
- Entering tree inventory data into digital field tools
- Working safely in Florida field conditions, including heat, humidity, sun, rain, insects, mud, uneven ground, brush, and active or semi-active sites
- Communicating when access, safety, tree identification, measurement, or site conditions are uncertain
- Helping organize, clean up, and check field data after site visits
- Learning Dark Moss field procedures, file organization, inventory workflows, and office follow-through
As you develop, you may train into:
- Arborist report preparation
- Tree preservation, removal, mitigation, and permit planning and documentation
- Plan review and tree-impact analysis
- Client and project-team coordination
Requirements
- ISA Certified Arborist credential
- Relevant arboriculture, urban forestry, landscape, municipal, environmental, tree care, or field assessment experience
- Ability to identify common Florida tree species
- Ability to measure trees accurately and consistently
- Comfort working outdoors in Florida conditions
- Strong observational skills and attention to detail
- Good judgment around safety, access, weather, animals, terrain, and field conditions
- Clear and professional written and verbal communication
- Willingness to learn office workflows, digital tools, and documentation standards
- Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation
Preferred, but not required
- Experience with tree inventories
- Experience using tablets, GPS, Fulcrum, ArcGIS, or similar field data tools
- TRAQ credential or interest in obtaining it
- Experience reading site plans, surveys, or construction documents
- Background in climbing, plant health care, municipal arboriculture, consulting, ecology, biology, landscape architecture, or construction
Hot Takes
Dark Moss works on projects where trees intersect with development, transportation, municipal review, private property, construction, and tree preservation. Our arborist work often begins with field inventory and documentation. That field data later supports reports, plans, permits, and project decisions.
The work can be physically demanding. Some sites are hot, wet, buggy, muddy, overgrown, confusing, or awkward to access. Some are active construction sites, road corridors, private properties, or rural sites. We take fieldwork seriously and expect staff to complete the work safely and efficiently, and to communicate clearly when conditions are unsafe or unclear.
What You Can Expect
We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package that supports your well-being, professional growth, and work/life balance:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Simple IRA with company match
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Reimbursement for licensure and CEUs
- Flexible or hybrid scheduling (depending on role)
- A collaborative, responsive work environment
- Competitive salary and annual performance reviews
To apply or express interest, send your resume and additional info in the form below...
To apply or express interest, send your resume and work samples to info@darkmoss.com.