Geospatial Jobs #15: Oct 20, 2021
Welcome to the 15th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more). To check out the previous issues, please click here.
Please note that many of the job positions that were featured in previous issues are still looking for applicants. So, be sure to check them out and apply if relevant. For instance, Colaberry is still trying to find candidates for 12 data science positions across the US (disclaimer: I have no idea about the company nor the positions. Just sharing it here to be helpful).
Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 Arable is hiring a Senior Data Scientist (SF Bay Area): Link
🇺🇸 Lime is hiring a Senior Data Scientist (SF Bay Area): Link
🇺🇸 Boston Consulting Group is hiring a Project Leader/Principal, Climate & Sustainability (SF Bay Area): Link
🇺🇸 Finezi Inc. is hiring a Geospatial Engineer (San Francisco, CA): Link
🇺🇸 KBR, Inc. is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 FAMS Design Solution is hiring a GIS Data Visualization: Link
🇺🇸 ARUP is hiring multiple graduate positions: Link1, Link2, Link3
🇺🇸 AECOM is hiring a GIS Specialist II (Oakland, CA): Link
🇺🇸 WSP is hiring a GIS Analyst (Oakland, CA): Link
🇺🇸 RTI International is hiring a Hydrometeorologist (Fort Collins, CO): Link
🇺🇸 World Resources Institute (WRI) is hiring a Sr. Project Manager for Resource Watch (Washington, DC): Link
🇺🇸 FEMA is hiring four Environmental Protection Specialists (Guanyabo, PR): Link
Spherical is hiring Unreal Engineers with GIS and/or water flow simulation experience: Link
🇨🇦 ZestyAi is hiring multiple positions (Montreal, QB):
🇬🇧 SatelliteVu is hiring a Remote Sensing Scientist: Link
🇫🇷 SpaceSense is hiring two Remote Sensing Engineers: Link
🇳🇱 Deep BV is hiring a Geo-data Team Lead and a Team Leader Processing
🇨🇿 AON is hiring a Catastrophe Modeller (Prague, Czech Republic): Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is hiring two positions:
🇺🇸 NASA JPL is hiring two postdoc positions:
🇺🇸 Multiple postdoc or scientist positions on airborne or spaceborne imaging spectroscopy available at Arizona State University: Link
🇺🇸 PNNL is hiring two positions:
🇺🇸 Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is hiring 2 positions:
🇺🇸 Postdoc Fellow I (Regional Hydroclimate Downscaling for Extreme Events) available at NCAR (Boulder, CO): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Ecosystem Sciences and Modeling available at USDA (Auburn, AL): Link
🇺🇸 Stanford Natural Capital Project is hiring 2 postdoc positions on connecting urban nature and health outcomes: Link
🇺🇸 World Agroforestry (CIFOR -ICRAF's Global Soil Spectroscopy team) is hiring a postdoc: Link
🇺🇸 Staff Researcher and Data Analyst position available at UCLA Water Technology Research Center: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position in Watershed Hydrology and Sediment Transport available at UC Merced: Link
🇺🇸 Hydrometeorological Science Researcher position available at UC San Diego: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on watershed ML modeling available at UT Austin: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on snowmelt remote sensing available at Syracuse University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on agricultural water quality modeling available at UIUC: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on techno-economic analysis (TEA) & life cycle assessment (LCA) of biofuels available at UIUC: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (NASA-funded) on SST variability in response to diurnal warming and air-sea-ice interactions, and in the changing marginal ice zone available at Farallon Institute (Petaluma, CA): Link
🇺🇸 3-year postdoc position (NASA-funded) on fusing sensors for characterizing flood dynamics available at NC State University: Link
🇺🇸 Research Scientist position (Water Resources Modeling) available at City University of New York: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Ecological Forecasting available at the Ecosystem Dynamics and Forecasting Lab at Virginia Tech: Link
🇺🇸 Hydrologist position (GS13-15) available at NOAA’s National Water Center (Tuscaloosa, AL): Link
🇺🇸 Alabama Water Institute is hiring a Research Manager - Director for Research to Operations Communications: Link
🇺🇸 Internship opportunity to work with NVIDIA and the Dask team on Dask Deployment and Kubernetes tooling: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc Fellow in Hydrological Modelling available at UBC: Link
🇪🇺 Scientific Project Officer position available at drought monitoring and forecasting team of Copernicus EMS: Link, Job post PDF
🇪🇺 Scientist position to work on machine learning for environmental modeling at ECMWF: Link
🏴 3-year tenure track Senior Researcher position on Water environment and circular economy available at The James Hutton Institute: Link
🇳🇱 Postdoc position in UAV/Drones for Real-Time Data Processing in Agriculture available at Wageningen University: Link
🇩🇪 4-year Senior Research Fellow position in Eco-Hydrology available at iCRAG: Link
🇩🇪 Scientist/Postdoc position on Climate Change and Ocean Modelling available at Helmholtz-Zentrum: Link
🇩🇪 3-year postdoc position on geoscientific modelling and data analysis available at Helmholtz-Zentrum: Link
🇰🇷 2 postdoc positions on global remote sensing of vegetation available at Seoul National University: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇺🇸 Muon Space, a climate-focused constellation and AI analysis company, raised $10M in seed funding. Learn more
🇺🇸 Climate Engine announced a strategic partnership with GHGSAT to provide methane emissions insights. Founded by a team of real experts in the field, their data marketplace is really comprehensive and their enterprise solution seems top notch. Learn more
🇺🇸 WattBuy, a NYC-based clean energy startup, raised $10M in Series A funding to expand access to affordable clean energy. Learn more
🇺🇸🇮🇳 AiDash, an AI-based platform utilizing satellite imagery to monitor infrastructure, raised $27M in series B funding. Learn more
🇮🇳 GramCover, Indian rural insurance startup, raised $7M Series A aiming to insure 10m Indian farmers. Learn more
🇳🇱 Agreena, a Netherlands-based carbon market platform focused on regenerative agriculture, raised $4.7M in seed funding. Learn more
🇫🇮 Kuva Space, a Finland-based developer of hyperspectral imaging satellites, raised $4.84M (EUR 4.2M) in seed funding. Learn more
🇦🇺 Farmbot, an Australian agtech startup connecting farms via satellite and mobile network, raised $2.7M. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Shell.ai is hosting a hackathon on AI solar power prediction. They will award total $6000 to three winning teams, who will have the chance to receive Proof of Concept funding of up to $150K. Learn more
NASA DEVELOP has four Tech & Innovation Development projects for the spring 2022 term. If you are experienced in programming or using Google Earth Engine and you want to develop tools for Earth science applications, you can apply to it here.
SnowEx Hackweek 2021 was offered virtually in July, and the tutorial recordings are now available on this Youtube Playlist. It seems like a great resource that covered lots of topics such as GitHub, JupyterHub, Python, NASA API, Machine Learning, etc. Learn more
SustainBench, a new set of curated datasets + benchmarks for sustainability-related ML tasks, has been released. Link to paper, Learn more
SMAP-HydroBlocks, the first satellite-based surface soil moisture dataset at 30m resolution for the contiguous United States, has been released. Learn more
✍️ I recently wrote an opinion piece explaining my thoughts on why you should forget about faculty positions and (how to) join the tech industry. Link
📨💡 Suggestions and feedbacks are most welcome! Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter. To learn more about my background, visit http://ali.people.ua.edu/.