Geospatial Jobs #36: Jun 29, 2023
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Welcome to the 36th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
🙏 Big shout out and thanks to Chloe Whicker for helping with preparing this issue.
Open Positions:
a. Data Science / Engineering positions:
Amazon is hiring a Senior GIS Technical Specialist (Bellevue, WA): Link
S&P is hiring a Climate Scientist for Financial Applications: Link
Liberty Mutual is hiring a Lead Analyst, CAT Mgt (Boston, MA): Link
Planet is hiring multiple positions:
Maxar is hiring a Senior Product Manager: Link
Kobold Metals is looking to fill multiple positions:
Verisk is looking to fill multiple positions (Boston, MA):
Tomorrow.io is hiring:
PwC is hiring a Climate Risk Senior Associate: Link
Blumen Systems is hiring a Geospatial Founding Engineer (San Francisco): Link
Aurora is hiring a Technical Lead in Localization and Mapping (Pittsburgh, PA): Link
RTI is looking to fill two new positions:
ICF is hiring an Energy Sector Climate Resilience Consultant: Link
ESRI is hiring a GIS Industry Solutions Manager in Agriculture: Link
CAL FIRE is hiring a Senior Environmental Scientist: Link
Environmental Science Associates (ESA) is hiring a Hydrologist/ Engineer (Seattle or Portland): Link
NV5 is hiring a Remote Sensing Sr. Scientist (Portland): Link
🇨🇦 EarthDaily Analytics is hiring multiple positions (Vancouver, BC):
🇬🇧 Climate X is looking for two people with experience in climate risk & banking risk: Link
🇪🇺 McKinsey is hiring (Europe):
b. Postdoc / research positions:
LANL is hiring Earth System Modeling and Analysis postdoc: Link
ORNL:
NASA:
Section Manager - Earth Science Section: Link
Postdoc: Lidar and PolinSAR/TomoSAR Data Fusion: Link
Postdoc: Hydrologist Specializing in Coastal Regions with Remote Sensing Expertise: Link
Postdoc on General Interactions Between the Hydrosphere and Solid Earth: Link
Postdoc on NISAR Solid Earth Algorithm Development: Link
Postdoc: Remote Sensing Data Analytics for Global Forest Carbon: Link
Postdoc: Land use controls on aquatic habitat water quality and health: Link
+ Several more postdoc positions can be found in this link
Argonne Lab is looking for a postdoc on Tropical and extratropical cyclone modeling and analysis: Link
National Renewable Energy Laboratory is hiring a Postdoc on AI for Clean Energy: Link
PNNL is looking for a Coastal Modeler: Link
Postdoc fellowship at Stanford on Remote Sensing for Economic Development: Link
Scientific Software Programmer at Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment of UIUC: Link
Postdoc position with Chaopeng Shen on hydrologic modeling at Penn State: Link
Postdoc at MIT at the intersection of quantitative ecology and AI: Link
Postdoc at Cornell on Water Resources: Link
Postdoc on Hydrodynamic and water quality modeling at Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS): Link
Postdoc on Urban-scale Mapping and Modeling of Coastal Communities at Rutgers: Link
Postdoc on Hydrologic Studies at University of Arizona: Link
Geospatial postdoc fellow at University of Missouri-Saint Louis: Link
Postdoc on river water quality at University of Cincinnati: Link
🇩🇪 2-4 year postdoc position on ML for climate science or atmospheric chemistry at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
We usually hear about success stories and achievements, but it’s not always like that. Today, I learned that Cervest, the London-based climate-tech startup with 70+ employees and $30+M funding to date, has collapsed and was declared insolvent 😐. A reminder to keep in mind that the startup game is really tough!
Guardian Agriculture raised $20M series A to expand precision crop protection drone technology. Learn more
Kobold Metals, a Berkeley-based startup that uses AI and geoscience for mining, has raised $195M, making their total fundraising exceed $400M. Learn more
🇮🇳 Pixxel, the Bengaluru, India-based hyperspectral imagery startup, has closed $36M in series B funding to roll out new remote sensing and analytics capabilities. Learn more
Raincoat, a Puerto Rico-based insurtech startup, has raised an additional $6.5M funding. Learn more
🇦🇺 Reask, a catastrophe risk data provider company has raised $4.9M seed funding, aiming to expand in the US market. Learn more
Tomorrow.io has raised $87M series E funding to expand on their vertically integrated approach for weather forecast solutions. Learn more
Whereobots, an Arizona based startup building a geospatial platform for enterprises closed a $5.5M seed round. Learn more