Geospatial Jobs #21: Feb 8, 2022
Welcome to the 21st issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more). If you think this effort is helpful to your friends and colleagues, share it with them:
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Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
Amazon is hiring a Chief Meteorologist (Phoenix, AZ): Link
Google is hiring a Customer Engineer, Google Cloud Geo, Public Sector: Link
Google Earth Engine team is hiring entry- and mid-level software engineers: Link
NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Developer Relations Manager – Geospatial: Link
Snap is hiring a Software Engineer, Maps Data Backend Engineer: Link
Sust Global (working on the intersection of climate & AI) is hiring for several positions:
Chubb is hiring two positions (Philadelphia, PA):
Liberty Mutual is hiring a Catastrophe Research Analyst (working with Kelly Hereid): Link
Jupiter is hiring a Technical Product Manager-Vulnerability: Link
IBM is hiring two positions:
Farmer’s Business Network (FBN) is hiring multiple positions:
Syngenta is hiring a Head of Climate and Nature: Link
Climate LLC is hiring a Weather Data Scientist: Link
Bayer is hiring a Data Scientist (Expert) - Data & Analytics (contract): Link
Colaberry is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist and an Agriculture Data Scientist: Link
HydroSat is hiring a Software Engineer - Image Processing: Link
Chloris Geospatial is hiring a Geospatial Data Engineer (Boston, MA): Link
Morgan Stanley is hiring an entry to mid-level climate associate: Link
BlackRock is hiring a Corporate Sustainability Analyst/Associate (GHG Emissions Data Management, Environmental Sustainability): Link
CarbonPlan is hiring a Data Scientist / ML engineer: Link
TransitionZero is hiring two positions:
PARC, a Xerox Company is hiring two positions (Palo Alto, CA):
Lockheed Martin is hiring a Remote Sensing AI Research Scientist (Palo Alto, CA): Link
BearingAI is hiring a ML engineer: Link
Makepath is hiring multiple positions:
GeoSearch is hiring a GIS Team Lead (New York): Link
Wildlife Conservation Society is hiring a Director for Science, Forests and Climate Change (New York): Link
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is hiring a Climate Resilience Scientist (California): Link
🇨🇦 FiniteCarbon is hiring an Applied Remote Sensing Scientist (Edmonton, Alberta): Link
🇦🇺 FrontierSI is hiring a Earth Observation Data Scientist (Melbourne, AU): Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
Scripps Oceanography has several job openings:
NASA LIS is hiring someone with AI/ML and hydrology background (working with Sujay Kumar): Link
Python Scientific Programmer/Analyst position available at NASA Earth Observations: Link
LLNL is hiring an Infrastructure & Climate Analysis postdoc: Link
LBNL (Berkeley Lab’s Climate & Ecosystems Division) is hiring a research scientist: Link
PNNL is hiring an Applied Climate Scientist level 2: Link
Postdoc positions in Data-Intensive Scientific ML, hosted at UC San Diego, Columbia, and UCIrvine working with Pierre Gentine, Mike Pritchard, Elias Bareinboim, and Stephan Mandt: Link
Postdoc position at Columbia University on climate sensitivity (working with Kate Marvel): Link
Postdoc position on process-level studies of tropical deep convection working with Kathleen Schiro at University of Virginia: Link
Postdoc position on Terrestrial Biosphere Modeling of Dryland Ecosystems working with Natasha MacBean at Indiana University: Link
Postdoc position at Terrerlab MIT to quantify and monitor forest degradation in the Amazon using Planet Labs data: Link
Postdoc position on soil moisture estimation working with Rafael Bras at Georgia Tech: Link
Postdoc position at Chapman University (Santa Ana, CA): Link
Postdoc position available at UNC Chapel Hill Earth Marine Environmt Sci: Link
Postdoc in Organic Agriculture Knowledge Network Analysis available at UC Riverside: Link
The Agricultural Water Center at UC Davis has several open postdoc positions: Link
Two postdoc positions on several projects related to human-water systems (working with Landon Marston) at Virginia Tech: Link
Postdoc position to study river water quality, a NASA funded multi-year project, working with Dongmei Feng at University of Cincinnati: Link
Postdoc position on water prediction using AI available at Alabama Water institute: Link
Postdoctoral position on Snowmelt Remote Sensing available at Syracuse University: Link
IndigoAg is hiring a Software Engineering Intern - Remote Sensing: Link
Google Research is looking to hire a student researcher for this summer (and likely beyond) focusing on machine learning and numerical modeling for weather & climate: Link
Postdoc Fellow position on Integrated Aquatic Ecosystem Modelling available at University of Saskatchewan: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoctoral Position in Hydrologic Modeling available at U Waterloo: Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position in hydrological research / process based flood analysis available at University of Potsdam: Link
🇳🇱 Postdoc Fellow in AI and Data Science for the Water Sector available at TU Delft: Link
🇨🇭 Postdoc fellowships available at the University of Lausanne: Link
🇱🇺 Researcher position in hydrological modeling available at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST): Link
🇮🇹 Postdoc position at University of Milan on challenges of agricultural water management in rural and peri-urban environments: Link
🇮🇹 Postdoc position on groundwater monitoring and modelling available at National Research Council: Link
🇮🇹 Postdoc positions on ERC-funded project DyNET available at the University of Padova: Link
🇸🇪 Postdoc position on modeling carbon burial in lake sediments available at Uppsala University: Link
🇸🇪 Two postdoc positions on on modeling microplastics and water variables available at SMHI: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇫🇮 ICEYE has closed a $136M Series D funding round to expand the world’s largest synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite constellation and grow their Natural Catastrophe (NatCat) Insights and Solutions offering. Learn more
🇫🇷 Descartes Underwriting has raised $120M Series B funding to expand on parametric and data-driven risk transfer products. Learn more
🇬🇧 Sylvera has raised $32M series A. They use a variety of satellite imagery and lidar data to enhance accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects. Learn more
🇺🇸 Aigen, a company developing a solar-powered robotics platform for agriculture and soil regeneration, announced a $4M seed round. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
OmdenaAI has several useful case studies on applications of ML in hydroclimate modeling. Here are two examples:
Registration is now open for the Big Data & Machine Learning in Hydrology Symposium May 18-20th at Penn State University. Learn more at http://hydroml.org
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Ali
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