Geospatial Jobs #25: Apr 29, 2022
One year anniversary + 2000 subscribers! 🎉
Welcome to the 25th 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 previous issues, click here.
📢🚨 Hiatus coming up! ✌️
This issue marks one year since I started this volunteer effort. Thanks again to all of you who shared the newsletter and helped it grow. After this issue, I have some personal plans coming up in the coming weeks, and the newsletter will go on a break for at least 6 weeks.
While this has been a great way for me to have a tiny contribution to the geospatial community and early careers, I’m not totally sure if I will be regularly compiling job lists after June. The main reason for my hesitation is the opportunity cost and the effectiveness of this approach (+ the fact that my email is being marked as spam by some people 🤐😀). Looking back at the archive, I may have spent about 150-200 hours on this newsletter. Our time is limited and we can only choose a few things to pursue. For me at this stage, there are several interesting topics that I’m interested to learn and experience (e.g. a few data science tools and courses + a couple of collaboration opportunities + more about product development, business planning, big tech, etc.), and those will take a considerable chunk of my spare time. Cheers!
Open Positions:
a. Data Science / Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 Google X Mineral Team is hiring a Technical Program Manager: Link
ICEYE is hiring a SAR specialist in California: Link
Maxar is hiring two positions:
Impact Observatory is hiring a Head of Machine Learning and Science: Link
Salient Predictions is hiring two positions:
Eagle Rock Analytics is hiring for a few positions including (Python programming + Climate):
Earthshot Labs is hiring an Applied Scientist: Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling: Link
Climate LLC is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist: Link
RMS is hiring two positions:
Verisk is hiring several positions (Boston, MA):
The World Bank is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist - Short Term Consultant: Link
RMI Climate Intelligence Program is hiring a Technical Product Director (Boulder, CO): Link
KPMG US is hiring a Manager, Climate Data and Technology, Technical Architect/Engineer: Link
International Monetary Fund is hiring an Economist/Climate Specialist - FAD: Link
Spherical is hiring a Javascript Developer (data viz and digital cartography): Link
The Geo Innovation Facility at the University of California Berkeley, is looking to hire a front end web developer to work on Cal-Adapt.org
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) is hiring an Atmospheric Scientist: Link
Environmental Science Associates is hiring an Air Quality and Noise Analyst: Link
Rhodium is hiring a Director/Associate Director – Corporate Climate Advisory: Link
ERM is hiring a Climate Change Data Analyst (Associate Level) (Washington, DC): Link
OnLocation Inc is hiring a Climate Impacts Analyst: Link
SparkGeo is hiring for a few positions such as:
🇬🇧 MSCI is hiring a Climate Change Specialist Consultant (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 Wellington Management is hiring a Climate Applied Analyst, EMEA (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 Bank of England is hiring a Senior Catastrophe and Physical Climate Risk Analyst - Insurance Supervision (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 RMS is hiring a Model Specialist Team Analyst (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 Willis (WTW) is hiring a Climate Analytics Analyst (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 Sword Group is hiring a Geospatial Weather Specialist (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 CGC is hiring an InSAR Scientist (Edenbridge, UK): Link
🇦🇺 Digital Agriculture Services (DAS) is hiring an Earth Observation Scientist (Melbourne): Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 Woodall Climate Research. center is hiring for multiple positions including:
X, the moonshoot factory is hiring an Earth Scientist AI Resident: Link
NASA JPL is hiring a few positions:
Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab is hiring a postdoc - Machine Learning for Climate Change and Wildfire Risk: Link
Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is hiring a BES Geoscience Postdoc: Link
Postdoc position on climate change impacts on hydrometeorological extremes working with Thomas Wahl at University of Central Florida: Link
Postdoc position on AgML development and creating open source frameworks working with Mason Earles at UC Davis: Link
2-year Cornell Postdoc Opportunity on Climate Projection Diagnostics: Link
Two postdoc positions (NSF funded) working with Sankar Arumugam on CMIP6 downscaling and flood projections available at NCSU: Link
Postdoc position on U.S.-wide estimation of land value and conservation cost available at Boston University: Link
Postdoc position on hydro modeling working with Mukesh Kumar at University of Alabama: Link
Staff associate position (BS or MS level) on tropical cyclone risk assessment working with Adam Sobel at Columbia University: Link
🇬🇧 ECMWF is hiring a Scientific Software Engineer – Hydrological Forecasts (Reading, UK): Link
🇩🇪 Max Plank Institute has two positions (ERC funded):
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
Capella Space closed $97M Series C Financing Round to Expand its Radar-Powered Satellite Imagery and Intelligence. Learn more
WaterPlan has closed $7M seed funding to incentivize water conservation. Learn more
Picterra has raised $6.5M to accelerate its mission of democratizing geospatial mapping. Learn more
🇨🇦 Manifest Climate, a Toronto, CA-based climate intelligence platform, raised $24M in Series A funding. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
I developed a tutorial (on Google Colab Notebook) for using python for climate data analysis. Check it out at this link
A fantastic list of 100+ Earth Observation companies across the globe, prepared by Daniel Jahn + resources for job hunting: Link
Lacuna Fund is looking for great ideas & proposals to build inclusive climate datasets for Artificial Intelligence. Datasets by and for local communities which are most affected by climate change (deadline: 17 July 2022): Learn more
📨 Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter. To learn more about my background, visit http://ali.people.ua.edu/.