While at the University of California, Berkeley, Dr. Almaraz worked in several research positions. She participated in the university's Research Experience for Undergraduates in Polynesia in 2006, where she studied the interaction between tree fungus and ant colonization. From 2009 to 2010, she worked as a Research Assistant at UC Berkeley and later became an Associate Laboratory Manager (2009-2011). In the latter role, Dr. Almaraz researched carbon sequestration on California rangelands and a hurricane manipulation experiment in Puerto Rico. During her doctoral studies at Brown University, she was part of the Brown-Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Joint Program (2011-2016), where she studied the environmental consequences of increasing fertilizer use on subsistent farms in Sub-Saharah Africa. Also during her time at Brown, Dr. Almaraz worked at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies as a Visiting Graduate Student (2014-2016). In this role, she studied how greenhouse gases and environmentally benign emissions vary across agricultural landscapes. Dr. Almaraz's dissertation focused on the role of global change and its impact on soil properties, particularly looking at how they interact to create detrimental nitrogen losses in the environment.

After completing her PhD, Dr. Almaraz was selected as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis (2016-2018). As a Fellow, she researched nitric oxide to understand how soil-caused emissions impact human health in California. She then joined the World Wildlife Fund as a WWF/NCEAS Postdoctoral Fellow (2018-2019), where she studied the nutritional, environmental, and livelihood impacts of protein production and consumption around the world. Afterward, she returned to the University of California, Davis as a Program Manager (2019-2021), where she managed a multi-institutional consortium of researchers and stakeholders focused on negative carbon emissions and natural climate solutions. Afterward, she joined The Nature Conservancy as a Natural Climate Solutions Prototyping Carbon Scientist (2021-2022). In the role, she helped implement climate solution projects globally. In 2022, Dr. Almaraz joined Princeton University as an Associate Research Scholar, where she conducted research on food systems and taught a graduate seminar on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). She served in the role for two years before joining Yale School of the Environment as an Associate Research Scientist in 2024. At the school, she oversees a multi-institutional research project focused on enhanced weathering and stakeholder engagement in Vermont.

Dr. Almaraz has received numerous awards and grants for her research, including grants from the National Science Foundation, Brown University, Specialty Granules Inc., and the California Air Resources Board. Other awards include being selected as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Science Foundation and the World Wildlife Fund as well as being named an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention. She is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Ecological Society of America, the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, and the New York Academy of Sciences. In speaking to career highlights, she mentions the NSF postdoctoral fellowship, DDIG, and being an honorable mention for the GRFP. Furthermore, she is a proud founder of AGU's Biogeosciences Section's DEI committee. She is currently working on a documentary film on climate solutions in the food system. Dr. Almaraz's work has not only been personally fulfilling but has also gained attention from the media, which is also very proud of.