Geospatial Jobs #39: Oct 4, 2023

Welcome to the 39th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).

🙏 Special thanks to Hamed Sharif for helping with preparing this issue.

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Open Positions:

a. Data Science / Engineering positions:

1. NVIDIA is hiring a Senior AI Research Scientist, Climate and Weather Prediction

2. Sust Global is hiring a Senior Climate Data Scientist

3. Mineral is hiring two positions:

   1. Agriculture Data Engineer

   2. Software Engineer

4. Perennial is hiring an Applied Scientist, Digital Soil Mapping

5. Salient is hiring a ML Engineer (Boston, MA)

6. Gro Intelligence is hiring a Senior Geospatial Software Engineer

7. Climate Engine is hiring a Geospatial Data Engineer

8. Freddie Mac is hiring a climate risk manager

9. Ramboll is hiring multiple positions:

   1. Geospatial Analyst (Arlington, VA)

   2. Dashboard/Reporting Analyst (Arlington, VA)

   3. Dashboard/Reporting Analyst (Overland Park, KS)

10. EarthScope is hiring a Data Scientist II - Imaging - SAR

11. Moffatt & Nichol is hiring a Coastal Engineer - Junior Level (Seattle, WA)

12. The New York City Department of Housing Preservation (HPD) is hiring a Senior Climate Technical Analyst

13. 🇬🇧 Pivotal is hiring a ML Researcher - Computer Vision

14. 🇨🇭 MSCI is hiring a Climate Risk Modelling, Data Scientist (Zurich)

15. 🇪🇸 Mitiga Solutions is hiring a Numerical Weather Prediction Specialist

16. 🇦🇺 Reask is hiring a Senior Software Engineer

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b. Postdoc / research positions:

1. Postdoc at CIRES/NOAA on developing ML model to estimate global methane soil sinks: Link

2. NCAR is hiring a Project Scientist for climate risk, resilience and adaptation: Link

3. Postdoc at Berkeley Lab on decarbonization pathways and environmental impact assessment: Link

4. Postdoc at Stanford on geophysics for energy transition metals: Link

5. Postdoc at Columbia University Climate School: Link

6. Postdoc at Boulder University on climate change and plant health: Link

7. FSE Postdoc Fellowship on global hunger, poverty alleviation, & environmental degradation: Link

8. Postdoc on sea level predictability and ML at UC Davis: Link

9. Postdoc at ORISE on modeling hydrological outcomes of stream and valley floor restoration: Link

10. Postdoc at UT Austin on coupled land-atmosphere-ocean modeling system: Link

11. Postdoc at UW Madison on climate change, terrestrial ecosystem and human societies: Link

12. Postdoc at Tufts University on climate-resilient and equitable infrastructure: Link

13. Postdoc at Duke on the effect of wildfires on water quality and quantity: Link

14. Postdoc at University of Massachusetts Amherst on ML and hydrology: Link

15. Postdoc at SERC on coastal wetlands and forest biogeochemistry: Link

16. University of Montana is hiring an outreach scientist: Link

17. 🇨🇦 Postdoc at Mila / McGill University: ML + climate or biodiversity: Link

18. 🇩🇪 Postdoc at TUBerlin on reducing water losses in distribution systems: Link

19. 🇸🇪 Postdoc at Lund University on earth observation of vegetation fires: Link

20. 🇮🇹 Postdoc at IRPI-CNR on large-scale river discharge estimation: Link

21. 🇭🇰 Postdoc at University of Hong Kong on carbon monitoring:  Link

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🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):

• Delos Insurance, a San Francisco-based property insurance for catastrophes platform, raised $7M in Seed funding.

• Indigo Ag has raised over $250M to drive innovation and growth in its sustainable agriculture program.

• MapBox has raised $280M in Series E funding to expand its offerings for the automotive industry.

• 🇬🇧 Open Cosmos, a UK satellite startup focused on sustainability, raised $50M.

• 🇬🇧 Previsico, a UK-based flood forecasting startup, raised £1.75M funding.

• Sensible Weather, a Los Angeles-based weather risk finance platform, raised an undisclosed amount.

• 🇬🇧 Treefera, a London-based forest monitoring and data platform, raised $2M.

• 🇩🇪 VIDA, a German physical climate risk analytics startup, has raised €3M.

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📚📖 Useful Resources:

• Python for Geospatial Analysis: a crash-course tutorial to geopandas, plotly, etc.

• Amazon Research Awards fall 2023 call for proposals (deadline: Nov 1): Link

• To my Farsi speaking readers: code.org has started creating “Code.org in Farsi”, to help Iranian children globally learn computer science in their native language. You can learn more and support the project here