Geospatial Jobs #10: Aug 11, 2021
Welcome to the 10th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
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Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 Amazon is hiring a Data Engineer to assess how weather impacts their supply chain: Link
🇺🇸 X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, is hiring for two positions (Mountain View, CA):
🇺🇸 DTN is hiring a Meteorological Software Engineer: Link
🇺🇸 Maxar is hiring an R&D Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 SwissRe is hiring a P&C Analytics Geospatial Modeller (Armonk, NY): Link
🇺🇸 Farmer's Business Network (FBN) is hiring a Data Scientist (San Carlos, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Salo Sciences is hiring a Geospatial Data Engineer (San Francisco, CA): Link
🇺🇸 MSCI Inc. is hiring a Climate Risk Researcher (New York, NY): Link
🇺🇸 Stantec is hiring a Senior/Principal Air Quality and Climate Change Consultant (San Jose, CA): Link
🇺🇸 MTRE is hiring a Climate Health Data Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 StormSensor is hiring a Junior Data Scientist and a Senior Data Scientist
🇺🇸 Colaberry is hiring an Operations Research PhD to work on agricultural production systems: Link
🇺🇸 ERM is hiring a Staff Climate Change Advisory Consultant (Entry Level): Link
🇺🇸 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is hiring an Analyst, Research & Analytics (San Francisco, CA): Link
🇺🇸 IHS Markit is hiring a Data Scientist, Climate and Sustainability Group Houston, TX): Link
🇺🇸 Public Health Institute is hiring a Geospatial Analyst (Richmond, CA): Link
🇨🇦 Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC) is hiring a Hydrologic Programmer Analyst (Victoria, BC, Canada): Link
🇬🇧 Sylvera is hiring for multiple data science and internship positions: Link
Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) is hiring multiple positions (College Park, MD):
🇺🇸 Multiple research positions available at Woodwell Climate Research Center (Falmouth, MA): Link
🇺🇸 UW-Madison Center for Limnology is hiring an assistant director: Link
🇺🇸 Sustainability Data Specialist position available at Stanford University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on quantifying climate impacts on inland and coastal eutrophication available at Stanford University: Link
🇺🇸 Handix Scientific is hiring a postdoc (NASA-funded) focusing on atmospheric aerosol measurement (Fort Collins, CO): Link
🇺🇸 Multiple postdoc, graduate assistant, and intern positions available through a NSF-funded project at Kansas Geological Survey or University of Kansas: Link
🇺🇸 NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (EAR-PF): Link
🇺🇸 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has a postdoc position on Wildfire, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Aerosol: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Climate Change and Plant Phenology available at UC Santa Cruz: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position available at University of Colorado Boulder on spatial data science and machine learning: Link
🇺🇸 Energy, Controls, and Applications Lab (eCAL) at UC Berkeley has a postdoc position: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on mapping small-scale agriculture and aquaculture available at Clark University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on remote sensing and snow hydrology available at the University of New Hampshire: Link
🇺🇸 Two postdoc positions on ocean mixing and ice-ocean interactions are available at Oregon State University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on sea level rise available at Princeton University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position focusing on investigating the coupled effects of physical and social processes on watersheds available at Iowa State University: Link
🇺🇸 Cooperative Institute of Great Lakes Research (CIGLR) is hiring a Modeling Data Analyst (Ann Arbor, MI): Link
🇺🇸 X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, is offering multiple PhD Residency (internships) such as:
🇩🇪 The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) is hiring two positions:
🇦🇺 CSIRO has a Postdoc Fellowship on Coastal Sediment Dynamics and Biogeochemistry: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇺🇸 Hydrosat, a Washington DC-based startup creating an infrared satellite constellation, raised $5M in Seed funding. Learn more
🇺🇸 Bright Power closed $24.5M growth round to drive energy savings and carbon emissions reductions for real estate owners. Learn more
🇺🇸 Novamera closed $5M series A funding to advance its precision mining solution. Learn more
🇺🇸 SINAI Technologies, a San Francisco, CA-based startup helping companies calculate internal carbon pricing, raised $10m funding. Learn more
🇬🇧 Sylvera recently received $5.8M seed funding to to bolster transparency around carbon offsetting projects. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
The STACspec has two request for proposals (RFPs) up and is looking to pay you to work on the STAC (SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs) ecosystem. Learn more
Lacuna Fund has announced a funding opportunity to create quality labeled agricultural datasets for machine learning solutions in sub-Saharan Africa. Expression of Interest is due by September 3, 2021. Learn more
Cloud to Street (partnered with Microsoft AI) has launched a $20K floodwater detection challenge (deadline Sep 29, 2021). Learn more
The Geo for Good Summit— an annual conference by Google geared toward nonprofits, scientists, government agencies and others who want to leverage mapping tools and technology for positive impact in the world—is now accepting applications. To learn more and apply for it, check out this link.
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