Geospatial Jobs #17: Nov 19, 2021
Welcome to the 17th 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.
Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer - Amazon Maps Data: Link
🇺🇸 Verisk/AIR-Worldwide (Atmospheric Perils research group) is looking for an early career statistician: Link
🇺🇸 McKinsey is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Climate Analytics (Denver, CO): Link
🇺🇸 REsurety is hiring a data engineer (Boston, MA): Link
🇺🇸 Bayer Crop Science is hiring a Lead Data Scientist: Link (also this link from Climate Corporation)
🇺🇸 Regrow Ag is hiring a Global Data Science Team Lead: Link
🇺🇸 Arable is hiring a Senior Data Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 Earthshot Labs is hiring a Senior Remote Sensing Specialist/Geospatial Data Engineer: Link
🇺🇸 EarthOptics is hiring a Machine Learning and Data Science Specialist: Link
🇺🇸 The Remote Sensing Team of Maxar is looking to fill multiple positions: Link
🇺🇸 Carto is hiring a GIS Presales Engineer (New York, NY): Link
🇺🇸 Sofar Ocean Technologies is hiring an Operational Data Scientist (San Francisco, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Spatial Informatics Group, LLC is hiring a Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data Analyst: Link
🇺🇸 Arup is hiring two positions (San Francisco):
🇺🇸 Stantec is hiring 2 data scientists (flood mapping, transportation modeling, etc.): Link
🇺🇸 FEMA is hiring a GIS Disaster Support Specialist (Washington, DC): Link
🇺🇸 Jacobs is hiring a Sustainability Specialist (Irvine, CA): Link
🇬🇧 ClimateX is hiring a Climate Scientist: Storms (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 FloodFlash has multiple positions such as flood modeller, catastrophe analyst, geospatial analyst, and data engineer (London, UK): Link
🇮🇹 Allianz is looking for an (english-speaking) atmospheric perils specialist in Rome: Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 LLNL is hiring multiple postdoc positions (Livermore, CA):
🇺🇸 PNNL is hiring a Chief Data Scientist in Artificial Intelligence (Seattle, WA): Link
🇺🇸 Desert Research Institute (DRI) is hiring a postdoc: Wildfire and Hydrological Modeler: Link
🇺🇸 US Forest Service is hiring two postdoc positions (Corvallis, OR):
🇺🇸 Research Scientist (Computational Ecohydrology) available at ORNL: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position at UC Berkeley focused on numerical modeling of wildfires: Link
🇺🇸 Multiple postdoc positions focusing on climate science, AI and/or hydro-economics (working with John Abatzoglou) at UC Merced: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on climate change and AI available at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position in Integrated Groundwater-Land Surface Modeling of Agroecosystems working with Hoori Ajami at UC Riverside: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position at UW-Madison (Digital Agriculture Research Lab) focusing on remote sensing and machine learning: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on reactive transport modeling of field-based uranium data during simulated groundwater recharge events available at University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee (UWM): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on soil and water conservation available at University of Arizona: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on post-fire hydrological modeling available at Oregon State University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on coupling lake, watershed, and estuarine models available at University of South Florida-Tampa: Link
🇺🇸 Research associate position available at Stevens Institute of Technology: Link
🇺🇸 Hydrometeorology Research Analyst position available at UCSD: Link
🇺🇸 Assistant Research Scientist (Environmental Remote Sensing / GIS) position available at Michigan Tech University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (NSF-EPSCOR funded) on understanding the impact of physical and biological drivers of water quality available at Idaho State University: Link
🇺🇸 Multiple postdoc positions on hydrologic and hydrodynamic modeling available at University of Alabama: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position in geography, with the goal of transitioning successful candidates into tenure-track positions, available at University of Alabama: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc positions (Wetlands Project) available at University of Arkansas: Link
🇺🇸 Internship opportunity at Microsoft Research (focusing on urban innovation). Apply now for summer 2022: Link
🇺🇸 Internship opportunity at USRA & NASA: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc or research associate position at Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) working with Saman Razavi on machine learning and mechanistic modelling: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc position in Hydrologic Modelling available at UWaterloo: Link
🇨🇦 Research Associate, Hydrology position available at University of Calgary: Link
🇩🇪 The three universities of the Berlin University Alliance have several postdoc positions:
🇩🇪 Postdoc position on ML/DL & Earth Observation big data available at TU Berlin: Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position “Plant and Water Modeller” available at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): Link
🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry is hiring a research group leader with emphasis on biosphere-atmosphere fluxes: Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position on 3D remote sensing of forest (and grassland) ecosystems available at the RSC4Earth of University of Leipzig: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇺🇸 Sofar Ocean Technologies, a San Francisco, CA-based startup making IOT devices for ocean data collection, raised $39M in Series B funding. Learn more
🇺🇸 REsurety, a Boston, MA-based energy analytics company (weather, power markets, and financial modeling), raised $16M in Series B funding. Learn more
🇺🇸 HydroSat closes another $10M in seed funding for their ground temperature analytics product. Learn more
🇺🇸 GeoSite announced partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch Ascend for Emissions Monitoring and Surveillance solution. Learn more
🇺🇸 Planet acquired VanderSat for ~$28M, indicating their plans to expand on agriculture sector. Learn more
🇺🇸 Colorado State University’s atmospheric scientists will lead $177M NASA mission to study thunderstorms in the Tropics. Led by Prof. Sue van den Heever, the mission will be a collection of 3 small satellites and flying in tight coordination. Learn more
🇳🇱 Overstory, a Netherlands-based EO monitoring platform using AI and high-resolution satellite imagery, raised ~$4M. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
AWS is holding re:Invent workshop/hackathon focusing on sustainability data analysis. A total of $50k AWS credits will be awarded. Learn more
New book for data visualization with Python (free online): Link
A free glossary of python codes for AI: 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/.