Geospatial Jobs #37: Aug 14, 2023

Aug 15, 2023

Welcome to the 37th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).

🙏 Shout out and special thanks to Hamed Sharif for helping with preparing this issue.

Open Positions:

a. Data Science / Engineering positions:

Google-X is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Geospatial: Link
Google-X 2023 PhD Residency - Earth Scientist: Link
Mobi Systems is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (GIS): Link
Planet is hiring a Sr Software Engineering Manager, Forest Ecosystems: Link
Chloris Geospatial is hiring a Backend Software Engineer - forest carbon monitoring (Boston, MA): Link
ClimateAi is hiring for a Meteorologist: Link
John Deere is hiring a senior ML engineer: Link
CoreLogic is hiring a Product Management Director: Link
Verisk is hiring multiple positions:
1. Senior Research Associate (Boston, MA): Link
2. Product Manager/ CAT Modeler (Boston, MA): Link
3. Wildfire Damage Modeling Engineer (Boston, MA): Link
4. Model Validation Analyst II (Boston, MA): Link
5. 🇬🇧 Senior Satellite Analytics Data Engineer (Edinburgh, UK): Link
6. 🇬🇧 Risk Consultant - Catastrophe Modeling (London): Link
7. 🇮🇳 CAT Modeling Analyst (Hyderabad, India): Link
8. 🇮🇳 CAT Modeling Analyst II (Hyderabad, India): Link
9. + several more that can be found here
S&P Global is hiring a Climate Scientist, Financial Applications: Link
Qcells North America is hiring a Senior Software Engineer - Energy Algorithms & Analytics (San Francisco): Link
WWF is hiring a Senior Program Officer, GIS and Data Analytics for Nature-Based Solutions (Washington, DC): Link
ERM is hiring a Managing Consultant, Methane Emissions- Geospatial and Climate Solutions (Washington, DC): Link
Guidehouse is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist (McLean, VA): Link
HDR is hiring a Senior Climate Scientist (Sacramento, CA): Link
World Bank is hiring multiple positions:
1. GIS Market Access Specialist: Link
2. Agriculture Data Scientist: Link
3. Geographer/Data Scientist (short-term): Link
🇬🇧 SatVu is hiring a Head of Product (London): Link
🇬🇧 Sylvera is hiring an ML Engineer (London): Link
🇨🇭 Wegaw is hiring an Atmospheric Data Scientist / Meteorologist: Link

b. Postdoc / research positions:

Research Software Engineer Position at UC Berkeley: Link
Environmental Data Scientist at CUAHSI: Link
LLNL:
1. Postdoc in Atmospheric Science: Link
2. Postdoc in Climate Modelling: Link
PNNL is hiring a Climate Resiliency Scientist 3: Link
Sandia National Laboratories is hiring several postdocs on the impacts of land use and climate change on soil system: Link
ORNL is hiring a Research and Development Meteorologist: Link
NASA LIS is hiring a Senior Research Scientist: Link
Postdoc in Climate Risk Management working with Klaus Keller at Dartmouth College: Link
Postdoc at Hydrology and Hydroinformatics Lab: Link
NYU is looking for postdocs in Climate Physics and ML: Link
UTK is hiring a GIS Lab Manager working with Qiusheng Wu: Link
Postdoc in intelligent systems and knowledge generation at Hydroinformatics Lab of the university of Iowa: Link
Postdoc at the George Washington University in Critical infrastructure networks and the FEW nexus: Link
Two postdoc positions at UC Davis:
1. Remote Sensing and Biometeorology: Link
2. Remote Sensing and ML Analytics for Sustainable Agriculture: Link
CLIMAS at New Mexico State University is hiring a Research Scientist: Link
Postdoc position in Integrated Hydrologic Modeling at UC Riverside: Link
Postdoc in Water Demand Projections and Planning at South Carolina University: Link
Multiple postdoc positions in remote sensing at the University of Minnesota: Link
Assistant Program Manager at Colorado State University: Link
NDWR is hiring a Hydrologist: Link
The Gulf Center for Equitable Climate Resilience is hiring a Coordination Associate: Link
PhD Internship opportunity at Nvidia: Link
🇪🇺 ECMWF is looking for Machine Learning Engineers: Link
🇬🇧 Two Postdoc positions in Weather Prediction at the University of Oxford: Link
🇫🇷 NASA Harvest is hiring a Remote Sensing Software Engineer: Link

🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):

🇩🇪 Airmo, a Germany-based satellite technology for GHG emission monitoring, has raised $2M in pre-seed funding.
🇫🇷 BiOceanOr, a predictive analytics provider for water quality, raised $2M seed funding.
🇩🇪 Constellr, thermal imagery startup, extended its seed round by €7M, bringing the total funding raised in this round to €17M.
Divirod, a Boulder, CO-based real-time water (/flood) risk monitoring platform, raised $4M in seed funding.
Pano, a San Francisco, CA-based wildfire intelligence and management provider, raised $17M series A extension funding.
🇦🇺 Plotlogic, an Australia-based developer of hyperspectral imaging for mining, raised $28M series B funding.
🇬🇧 Sylvera, a UK-based carbon credit insight provider startup, has raised $57M series B funding and is planning on US expansion.

📚📖 Useful Resources:

Data science challenges:
- Developing a Tree Classification System Using ML
- Predicting Industrial CO2 Emissions with ML
Allianz Climate Risk Award is now accepting applications from PhD candidates and postdoc researchers who study extreme weather events and the impact of climate change (deadline: August 31, 2023). Apply here
New satellite data tutorial: how to load open data from Microsoft Planetary Computer using the Open Data Cube and STAC metadata: Link