Geospatial Jobs #35: May 31, 2023
Welcome to the 35th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
It’s great to see several fundraising news and a decent number of job openings. I hope the job market picks up again and stays strong. If you think this effort is helpful for others, please do share it with them :)
Open Positions:
a. Data Science / Engineering positions:
Syngenta is hiring a Remote Sensing Lead: Link
Climate LLC is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist (San Francisco): Link
ClimateAi is hiring a Head of Data Science: Link
Regrow Ag is hiring a Senior Scientist - Modeling: Link
Gro Intelligence is hiring multiple positions (New York):
Spire is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Weather (Boulder, CO): Link
BMS Group is hiring Assistant Vice President, Catastrophe Analytics: Link
S&P Global is hiring a Real-Time Analytics Platform GIS Product Manager (New York): Link
Verisk is hiring a Research Hydrometeorologist – Precipitation Extremes (Boston, MA): Link
Everest Insurance is hiring an AVP, Catastrophe Management (Warren, NJ): Link
Ramboll is hiring a Climate Analyst (Novato, CA): Link
Booz Allen Hamilton is hiring a Climate Data Science Lead (Washington, DC): Link
PwC is hiring two positions:
SAIC is hiring an Earth Modeling Scientific Programmer (Princeton, NJ): Link
onXmap Inc is hiring a Senior Geospatial Backend Engineer: Link
EVONA is hiring a Director of Image Processing - Hyperspectral: Link
Chloris Geospatial is hiring a Remote Sensing Scientist (Boston, MA): Link
X (Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory) is hiring a Power Systems Data Scientist, Project Tapestry: Link
Chevron is hiring a Remote Sensing & Geospatial Specialist (San Ramon, CA): Link
ERT Inc is hiring an Atmospheric Scientist - Satellite Snowfall Estimation (College Park, MD): Link
ERM is hiring a Senior Methane Emissions Specialist / Data Scientist: Link
The Nature Conservancy is hiring two positions:
World Wildlife Fund is hiring a Remote Sensing and Ecoinformatics Lead (Sacramento, CA): Link
Eagle Rock Analytics is hiring a summer research associate (internship) in climate data analytics: Link
GeoOwl is hiring a Senior Data Engineer (Fort Gordon, GA): Link
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is hiring a Staff Scientist, Coastal Resilience (Washington, DC): Link
SoilWatch is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist: Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
Argonne National Laboratory has two positions (Chicago):
NASA is hiring two positions:
LLNL is hiring an Atmospheric Scientist (Lawrence, CA): Link
Multiple postdoc positions available at M2LInES (MIT, NYU, CNRS-IGE) on AI and climate modeling: Link
Postdoc on Urban and Environmental Studies at UC Santa Cruz: Link
Postdoc on Coastal/Environmental Engineering at UCI: Link
Postdoc in Forest Ecology at UMaine: Link
Postdoc at Sierra Nevada Research Institute (UC Merced): Link
Postdoc at the Machine Learning and Sensing Lab of UFlorida: Link
Postdoc on Global to Regional Origins of Water Stress (GROWS) at University of Wyoming: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc on Water Quality and Machine Learning at U Waterloo: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc Research Hydrologist at PCIC: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇨🇦 ChrysaLabs secures CA $15M ($11M) series A funding to provide real-time soil insights. Learn more
Hydrosat announced $20M in new funding to track moisture stress using satellite-based thermal infrared data. Learn more
🇪🇸 Mitiga Solutions, a Barcelona, Spain-based natural disaster risk and resilience platform, raised $14M in Series A funding. Learn more
🇬🇧 Satellite Vu, a London-based thermal satellite monitoring company, raised $16M (£13M) in Series A2 funding. Learn more
Waterplan has raised $11M series A funding to expand their R&D on water risk management. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Multiple AI innovation challenges:
OrbitalAI Challenge: https://ai4eo.eu/portfolio/orbitalai-challenge/
A notebook tutorial for Smart Meter Data Analytics (ML for Energy Data) from ICLR 2023 conference: Link to tutorial