Geospatial Jobs #4: May 11, 2021
Welcome to the 4th issue of Geospatial Jobs newsletter prepared by me, Ali Ahmadalipour. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to the newsletter, and share it with your friends and colleagues. To check out the previous issues, please click here.
Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
McKinsey is hiring two positions:
Verisk is hiring a Jr to mid-level atmospheric scientist (Boston, MA🇺🇸): Link
Pepsico is hiring for multiple positions (Dallas, TX🇺🇸):
American Farmland Trust (AFT) is hiring Climate Initiative Director, Climate Change and Soil Health Scientist, and Climate Policy Specialist🇺🇸: Link
Allianz is hiring a Senior Risk Analyst (Chicago, IL🇺🇸): Link
Arup is hiring a Risk and Resilience Consultant (San Francisco, CA🇺🇸): Link
Resurety is hiring two senior data science and data engineer positions (Boston, MA🇺🇸): Link
California Department of Technology is hiring a Geospatial Engineer🇺🇸: Link
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) is hiring a Climate Policy Coordinator (Washington, DC🇺🇸): Link
Quansight is hiring for multiple positions (tech lead / Sr Python / DevOps / Dask / C++ / PyTorch): Link
Cervest is hiring a flood modeler (London, UK🇬🇧): Link
Up42 is hiring multiple geospatial and backend engineer positions (Berlin, Germany🇩🇪): Link
Researcher on GHG emissions and the global carbon cycle at CICERO (Oslo, Norway🇳🇴): Link
SatSure is hiring a Remote Sensing Analyst (Bangalore, India🇮🇳): Link, Email: careers@satsure.co
b. Postdoc/research positions:
🧑🏫 Staff hydrologist position by CUAHSI (Cambridge, MA🇺🇸): Link
🎓 Postdoc position on diagnosing ENSO teleconnections in observations and models at CIRES/NOAA PSL (Boulder, CO🇺🇸): Link
🎓 Postdoc position at MacroSheds (Duke & Colorado State🇺🇸): Link
🎓 Postdoc position on satellite monitoring of coral reef bleaching at Arizona State University🇺🇸: Link
🎓 Postdoc position in atmospheric chemistry working with Dylan Millet at the University of Minnesota🇺🇸: Link
🎓 Postdoc position at Northern Arizona University on remote sensing of the dry valleys, Antarctica🇺🇸: Link
🎓 Postdoc position on freshwater data science and limnology with Paul Hanson and Hilary Dugan at the UW-Madison🇺🇸: Link
📊 Environmental data research associate position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)🇺🇸: Link
📊 Research assistant position on physical climate risk at Woodwell Climate Research Center (Falmouth, Massachusetts or Remote🇺🇸): Link
🧑🏫 Research Scientist Hydrologist position at CSIRO (Canberra, Australia🇦🇺): Link
🎓 2 postdoc positions working with Elena Bennett at McGill University (Montreal, Canada🇨🇦): Link
🎓📊 Multiple postdoctoral and research positions at the Global Institute for Water Security of the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Canada🇨🇦): Link
🎓 Postdoc position with Friederike Otto on attributing extreme weather at the University of Oxford🇬🇧: Link
🎓 Research Fellow on Climate Change Mitigation and Sanitation at the University of Leeds (Leeds, England🇬🇧): Link
🎓 Postdoc fellow on regime shifts at the Stockholm University🇸🇪: Link
🎓📊 Open position on ML for hydrology and hydraulics with Luca Brocca at the National Research Council - Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection Italy🇮🇹: Link
🕵️👀💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
A great way to know about possible upcoming job opportunities is to follow fundraising news or high level announcements of companies’ plans and expansion goals. Here are a few companies that I learned about their announcements within the past two weeks and may have open positions in the near future:
Arturo has raised $25 million in series B funding for their AI platform to help P&C insurers and banks better understand physical properties: Link
Pachama has raised $15 million in series A funding for their AI and remote sensing tools for monitoring carbon capture by forests: Link
Precision.ai🇨🇦, a computer vision and robotics company based in Saskatchewan, Canada has raised $20 million to empower sustainable farming practices: Link
Up42🇩🇪, the developer platform and marketplace for satellite data and analytics based in Berlin, is planning to grow ~50% by the end of the year and will be hiring for multiple geospatial roles for the data, processing and integration teams
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Hatari Labs (by Saul Montoya): a great hands-on free tutorial for Python, QGIS, R, and other useful models in hydroclimate modeling (e.g. HEC-HMS, MODFLOW, etc.): https://www.hatarilabs.com/ih-en + their weekly newsletter that you can subscribe to.
Notes from the Deep Learning course offered by Anrew Ng, gathered by Tess Ferrandez: Direct link for downloading the summary
Free short crash course on geospatial analysis with Python (wrangling, plotting/mapping, and modeling), using tools such as geopandas, plotly, pykrige, etc.) gathered by Tomas Beuzen: Link
7 amazing (and free) geospatial courses by Ujaval Gandhi utilizing python, QGIS, and GDAL (including installation guide and where to begin): Link
1. Spatial Data Visualization and Analytics, 2. Advanced QGIS, 3. Python Foundation for Spatial Analysis, 4. Customizing QGIS with Python, 5. Mastering GDAL Tools, 6. End-to-End Google Earth Engine, 7. Automating GIS Workflows with QGIS
📨💡 Suggestions and feedbacks are highly appreciated! Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter. To learn more about my background, visit http://ali.people.ua.edu/.