Geospatial Jobs #18: Dec 2, 2021
Welcome to the 18th 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:
🇺🇸 Facebook (Meta?!) is hiring for two positions (Burlingame, CA):
🇺🇸 Sust Global is hiring multiple positions (Remote, USA):
🇺🇸 X (Moonshoot factory) is hiring a data scientist - mineral: Link
🇺🇸 Descartes Labs is hiring two positions:
🇺🇸 Gro Intelligence is hiring a Geospatial Analyst (New York, NY): Link
🇺🇸 First Street Foundation is hiring a Research Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 Bayer is hiring a Data Scientist Postdoc (i.e. cheap workforce): Link
🇺🇸 GeoSearch is hiring a Lidar / Geospatial Analyst (Sacramento, CA): Link
🇺🇸 ClimateAi is looking for a data visualization contractor (part time): Link
🇺🇸 Battelle is hiring a Data Scientist - Remote Sensing (Boulder, CO): Link
🇺🇸 Valiant Integrated Services is hiring a Geospatial Analyst, Mid-level (Marysville, CA): Link
🇺🇸 FEMA is hiring multiple positions:
🇺🇸 NASA is hiring a Earth Science Data Engineer (Pasadena, CA): Link
🇺🇸 USGS Water is hiring 2 data scientists - data visualization specialist (GS-9 and GS-12): Link
🇺🇸 WEST Consultants Inc. is hiring an Entry Level Water Resources Staff Engineer: Link
🇺🇸 World Research Institute (WRI) is hiring for two positions:
🇨🇭 IBM is hiring 2 positions (Zurich):
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 USGS is offering many postdoc fellowships (at least 10 relevant positions) across the US (application deadline: Jan 6, 2022): Link
🇺🇸 NASA is hiring a postdoc position on applying cloud computing to remote sensing oceanography focusing on altimetry: Link
🇺🇸 Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is hiring a postdoc Fellow (Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems): Link
🇺🇸 Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) is hiring a postdoc position - Uncertainty Quantification: Link
🇺🇸 Science Systems and Applications, Inc (SSAI) is hiring a Research Scientist – Earth Science Remote Sensing Applications (Hampton, VA): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position - Oceanographer available at Bay Area Environmental Research Institute: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (NASA-funded) on using satellite data & machine learning to examine LULCC working with Beth Tellman at University of Arizona: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Research and Planning Innovations for Dryland Systems available at University of Arizona: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on flood risk and nature-based solutions available at UC Santa Cruz Coastal Resilience Lab: Link
🇺🇸 2-year post-doc position (NSF-funded) working with Sankar Arumugan on CMIP6 downscaling using machine learning: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on water quality modeling working with Nathalie Nelson at NC State University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position at the Center for Natural Hazards Resilience (working on ADCIRC storm surge model): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Watershed Simulations for Climate Resilience available at UC Davis: Link
🇺🇸 3 postdoc positions (managed aquifer recharge and geophysics) available at UC Davis: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (NSF-funded) available at New Mexico Water Resources Research Institute (NM WRRI): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Freshwater Ecology/Hydrology available at Alabama A&M University: Link
🇺🇸 USRA is hiring a research assistant (Huntsville, AL): Link
🇺🇸 X (Google’s moonshoot factory) has a PhD Residency - Machine Learning - Planetary Health / Ecological Species-Level Abundance / Interactions Modeling: Link
🇺🇸 AI2 is looking for an Applied Sciences and Technology Intern - Climate Modeling: Link
🇺🇸 Undergraduate intern position on radar meteorology available at MIT: Link
🇺🇸 Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at UT Austin: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc position in environmental impacts on human health available at University of Saskatchewan: Link
🇬🇧 Postdoc position on land carbon cycle, response to CO2, N limitations available at Exeter University: Link
🇨🇿 Multiple postdoc positions on Terrestrial HydrologicAl Cycle Acceleration available at Czech University of Life Sciences: Link
🇨🇭 Postdoc position in Environmental Geophysics available at The University of Lausanne (UNIL): Link
🇦🇺 Research Scientist - Hydrogeologist/Groundwater Hydrologist available at CSIRO: Link
🇪🇸 5 postdoc positions in AI and ML, Climate and Earth Sciences at the Image and Signal Processing group in Valencia, Spain: Link
🇮🇳 Multiple research positions available at Hydroclimatic Research Group, IIIT Hyderabad: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇺🇸 Kettle, Micro-reinsurer focusing on climate change effected risks, has raised $25M series A fund. Learn more
🇺🇸 StormSensor, Inc. a Seattle-based company using sensors for real-time water flow monitoring, has closed a $10M funding round. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Cloud Cover Detection Challenge (Microsoft AI for Earth) is open! Use publicly available Sentinel2 data with ground truth labels created by our team to detect cloud cover. $20,000 prize: Link
Resources for deep learning (DL) on satellite & aerial imagery: Link
Machine Learning interview cheat sheet: Link
Uber’s Bayesian forecasting python library: 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/.