Geospatial Jobs #2: Data science/ML & internships
Apr 18, 2021
Welcome to the second issue of geospatial jobs newsletter prepared by me, Ali Ahmadalipour (@hydroclimali on Twitter). The first issue was published just a few days ago, and it received substantial attention. Special thanks to thousands of people who read the newsletter, hundreds of whom subscribed to it too. Such a great interest along with all the beautiful messages I received motivated me to dig more into the subject and put together a follow up issue. In this issue, there are 20+ data science positions and 20+ internship positions (which many students asked for). At the end, I have gathered a few useful resources and suggestions that I hope you find helpful.
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Stay motivated and keep up the good work. Wishing you all the best in your job search.
Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🌽🖥 McKinsey & Company is hiring 3 data scientists (📍Denver, CO):
🌽 Indigo is hiring an R&D Data Analyst, Portfolio & Data Insights (📍Boston,MA or Remote): Link
🌽 Granular is hiring 7 data scientists + multiple software engineers and product designers (📍San Francisco, CA; Johnston, Iowa; Champaign, IL; or Remote): Link
🌽 Pivot Bio is hiring a Biogeochemical Data Scientist (📍St. Louis, MO; Berkeley, CA; Hayward, CA; or Ames, IA): Link
🌽 ClimateAi is hiring a Climate Data Scientist (📍San Francisco, CA or Remote): Link + 2 other positions for customer success solutions
🛰 Planet is hiring a Geospatial Tech (📍Remote): Link + multiple software/data engineers
🛰 Geosite is hiring a Lead GIS Analyst/Scientist (📍San Francisco, CA/Remote): Link
🛰 Cape Analytics is hiring 3 Backend Engineers in 📍Mountain View, CA, 📍Denver, CO, and 📍Munich, Germany
🛰 Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is hiring a Senior Geospatial Analyst, MethaneSAT (📍Various): Link
🌊🖥 Risk Management Solutions (RMS) is hiring for multiple positions:
🌊🖥 AON is hiring a Senior Analyst, Data Analytics and a Catastrophe Modeler (📍Chicago, IL)
🌊🖥 DewBerry is hiring 3 relevant positions:
b. Managing/Lead positions:
🏢 Microsoft is hiring a Senior Program Manager, Geospatial SAR/GMTI (GSG): Link
🌊🖥 SwissRe is hiring 2 Geospatial Solutions Manager (📍New York or several other locations): Link1, Link2
🌊🖥 AON is hiring a Data Analytics Manager (📍Chicago, IL): Link
c. Postdoc/research positions:
🖥 Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is hiring a Data Scientist (📍Berkeley, CA): Link
🧑🏫 2 assistant research professor positions (non-tenure) available at Penn State University (State College, PA): Link
🖥 Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is hiring a Geospatial Ecology and Remote Sensing Analyst (📍Knoxville, TN): Link
🎓 10 postdoc positions available at NYU, Columbia, and Princeton (as part of the new M2LInES international collaboration) on applying scientific and interpretable machine learning for climate science: Link to positions
Similar positions at MIT, CNRS-IPSL, and CNRS-IGE coming up soon.
🎓 2 postdoc positions on using radar measurements for hail characterization and QPE available at EPFL: Link to positions
d. Internships:
🛰 Planet:
🛰 Radiant Earth Foundation: Data policy intern: Link
🌽 Climate Corporation: Product, Digital Crop Protection intern (📍St Louis, MO): Link
🌽 Indigo: Customer analytics intern (📍Boston, MA or Remote): Link
🌽 Granular: Data scientist intern (📍Remote): Link
🌽 Pivot Bio:
🌧 DTN: Meteorologist Intern (📍Burnsville, MN): Link
🌊🖥 SwissRe (📍Armonk, NY): Link
🌊🖥 AON: Data Modeling & Analytics Intern (📍Chicago, IL): Link
🖥 Pacific Northwest National Lab, PNNL (📍Richland, WA): PhD Intern - Environmental Science: Link
🌎 World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF): Resilience and Disaster Intern (📍Washington, DC): Link
🌊🖥 DewBerry:
Data science Intern (📍Fairfax, VA): Link
Coastal Resilience Engineering Intern (📍Fairfax, VA): Link
Water Resources Engineering Intern (📍Fairfax, VA): Link
GIS/Remote Sensing Intern (📍Denver, CO): Link
GIS/Remote Sensing Intern (📍Tampa, FL): Link
Water Resources Engineering Intern (📍Atlanta, GA): Link
Water Resources Engineering Intern (📍Baton Rouge, LA): Link
Water Resources Engineering Intern (📍Dallas, TX): Link
⚡️🖥 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI):
📚📖 Useful Resources:
💻📝 AMS short course on Python for Climate and Meteorology: Youtube Link
🧑🏫 Free online course on SAR remote sensing: hazards, offered by Prof. Franz Meyer: Link to course enrollment
🧑🏫 Application is now open for the UNAVCO course on "InSAR Processing & Time Series Analysis for Geophysical Applications. This is a 5-day course (4 hours per day) that is scheduled for August 23-27, 2021. Instructors from NASA JPL, MIT, UC-Riverside, and UAF will be teaching various topics. Learn more about the agenda and apply through this link.
🗒💡 Notes and Suggestions:
A lot of startups hire interns on a regular basis and do not necessarily advertise for it. If your research is very relevant to a company, they may be interested to hire you as an intern or a part-time employee, and you may end up working with them after graduation.
Try your best to improve your programming (preferably Python & xarray library) and data science skills (preferably Tensorflow or Pytorch), and publish papers or be active on community platforms (e.g. Github, Pangeo, or Kaggle) to prove your skills. There are 100s of online courses on Udemy or Coursera and many free bootcamps and short courses. Learning has never been more accessible!
Develop a portfolio and showcase your work/research on your website. There are several free tools such as Google sites, Wix, or Weebly (among others) that you may consider.
Now is the best time to get a geospatial job/internship, since you do not necessarily need to move to another city (no sub-lease hassle!) and several startups have recently had fundraising (cash is king!). If your expertise is in deep learning (computer vision) and remote sensing (with a proven track record), there are numerous companies from several sectors (e.g. agtech, insurtech, climatetech, geo-intelligence, energy, CAT modeling, sustainability, and supply chain) that are interested to hire people like you.
If you are an advisor/faculty member: be kind to your students and encourage/help them learn useful skills and grow professionally. The industry is no longer just a bunch of consulting firms that used Matlab and Microsoft Excel. The wind of change is blowing and the conventional path of PhD🤷—>Postdoc🤓—>Postdoc2🥸—>Assistant professor🎅—>Tenure🥳 does not work for everyone (especially for motivated researchers at ~average universities, in my opinion), and there are many other exciting opportunities out there.
I declare no competing financial interests. This is a volunteer project and I have not received any financial incentive to advertise these jobs.
📨💡 Suggestions and feedbacks are highly appreciated! Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter. To learn more about my background, visit http://ali.people.ua.edu/. In the meantime, tell your friends and network!