Geospatial Jobs #20: Jan 20, 2022
Hello and welcome back to the 20th issue of Geospatial Jobs. I hope you’ve had a great year so far and I hope you can achieve the best of your goals in 2022. Geospatial Jobs is a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more). After a few weeks of hiatus, the geospatial job market is taking off and that’s exciting!
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Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 SpaceX is hiring a meteorologist (Brownsville, TX): Link
🇺🇸 Facebook (Meta?) is hiring an Energy Analyst (Asset Management): Link
🇺🇸 AWS Data Exchange is looking for a program manager for their open data efforts: Link
🇺🇸 Chubb is hiring a Nat Cat Research Scientist (Philadelphia, PA): Link
🇺🇸 Zurich North America is hiring a Regional Head of Cat Modeling for North and Latin America: Link
🇺🇸 Ford Motor Company is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist (Palo Alto, CA): Link
🇺🇸 EY is hiring a Climate Change and Sustainability - Senior: Link
🇺🇸 McKinsey & Company is hiring a Manager of Research Science - Climate Analytics (Denver, CO): Link
🇺🇸 BASF is hiring a Manager of Weather and Climate Solutions (North Carolina or remote): Link
🇺🇸 Indigo Ag is hiring a Principal Software Engineer, Carbon (Backend): Link
🇺🇸 Climate Engine is hiring multiple data scientist and python developers: Link
🇺🇸 Climate Corporation is hiring a Lead Data Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 Farmer's Business Network is hiring a Sr. Data Analyst (SF Bay Area): Link
🇺🇸 NCX is hiring an Applied Statistician: Link
🇺🇸 Pachama is hiring a Remote Sensing Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 Mathematica is hiring two positions (Oakland, CA):
🇺🇸 ClimateWorks is hiring a Senior Associate, Global Intelligence: Link
🇺🇸 US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the creation of the "Climate Change Professionals Program" and is hiring for it: Link
🇨🇦 EarthDaily Analytics is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Geospatial Data Science (Vancouver, BC): Link
🇩🇪 Allianz Re is hiring a Senior Atmospheric Risk Analyst (München, DE): Link
🇬🇧 RMS is hiring two positions:
🇬🇧 Willis Research Network (WRN) is hiring Head of Flood research (London): Link
🇬🇧 Earth Blox is hiring two positions:
🇬🇧 Cervest is hiring for multiple positions including:
🇸🇬 SwissRe is hiring a Nat Cat Specialist (Singapore): Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 NASA funded Postdoc/PhD Opportunity at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory - University of Minnesota working with Ardeshir Ebtehaj: Link
🇺🇸 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is hiring several postdoc positions:
🇺🇸 Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is hiring two postdoc positions:
🇺🇸 NASA/GSFC is hiring a Civil Servant position in Land Data Assimilation: Link
🇺🇸 PNNL is hiring a postdoc position on Aerosol-cloud interactions and cloud feedbacks: Link
⭐️🇺🇸 Postdoc position on inferring ocean transport from SWOT satellite altimeter, working with Ryan Abernathey at Columbia University: Link
🇺🇸 Columbia University is hiring a Senior Research Scholar to work on areas of climate & energy, with particular interest in carbon management: Link
🇺🇸 The University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) seeks to hire three Research Staff members on global change and solid Earth geophysics: Link
🇺🇸 Two postdoc fellowship position on stream temperature regimes and summer low flow in the Pacific Northwest available at Oregon State: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Economics of Flood Risk & Nature-based Solutions available at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on domestic climate politics in the US available at Duke University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position - Life and Environmental Sciences available at the Aerosol-Climate group of UC Merced: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position in agrivoltaics at UC Davis: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position in estuary groundwater-surface water exchange available at UMass Lowell: Link
🇺🇸 Multiple positions (Computational biologist, software developer, and postdoc fellow) available at Wrighton Lab at Colorado State University: Link
🇺🇸 Two postdoc positions on stream/reservoir network discharge, temperature, and algal bloom prediction available at Colorado State University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Harmful Algal Bloom Numerical Modeling with NOAA: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position in Hydrology at University of Wyoming: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on urban tree response to heat using imagery from drones and cubesats available at American University: Link
🇺🇸 X is hiring a PhD Residency - Time-series forecasting - causal inference: Link
🇺🇸 Summer internship on satellite data workflows at NCAR: Link
🇺🇸 Two summer internship positions (stormwater) at HDR (Austin, TX): Link
🇺🇸 Internship position on Applied Sciences and Technology - Climate Modeling available at The Allen Institute for AI (Seattle, WA): Link
🇨🇭 Postdoc positions at ETH Zurich in catchment hydrology / ecohydrology / geomorphology: Link
🇨🇭 4-year postdoc position on seamless coupling of kilometer-resolution weather predictions and climate simulations with hail impact assessments available at ETH Zurich: Link
🇩🇪 3+3 years postdoc position in large-scale water resources modeling at TU Dresden: Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position on satellite-based wildfire monitoring available at Universität der Bundeswehr München: Link
🇬🇧 European Space Agency (ESA) is hiring an Internal Research Fellow in Exploiting Earth Observation for Climate Research: Link
🇬🇧 Plymouth Marine Lab (PML) is hiring a Data Visualization & GIS Developer: Link
🇸🇪 Postdoc position in Hydrological Research available at SMHI: Link
🇮🇹 3 postdoc positions for marine ecosystem modellers at OGS (Italy): Link
🇪🇺 ECMWF is building a digital twin of the Earth and has multiple job opportunities: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇺🇸 The Climate Service, climate risk consulting firm based in Durham NC, was acquired by S&P Global. Learn more
🇺🇸 Descartes Labs was awarded a $112M to provide dual use commercial tech and services to US Army: Learn more
🇨🇦 NorthStar Earth & Space, a provider of satellite-based data analytics services, raised $45M.
🇩🇪 Stenon, real-time soil-testing agtech startup, raised $20M Series A funding. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
An amazing series of tutorials on deep learning in TensorFlow with Earth observation data: Link
OpenRemoteSensing contains codes and data associated with remote sensing papers (many articles with code and data on deep learning): 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/.