Geospatial Jobs #42: Jan 18, 2024
Welcome to the 42nd issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
Seeking volunteers
Being consistent and sharing things regularly for several years is a bit challenging. I’m hoping to have a couple of volunteers who can help with some efforts. There are a few interesting ideas that a volunteer can be quite helpful with. Here are a few of them:
The list of geospatial companies should to be updated.
I can talk to hiring managers or recruiters and ask them about about their hiring process and how to plan and prepare for job search (maybe a podcast?)
How to join big tech companies working on geospatial stuff (and learn about different teams or companies)?
Talk to different people from various industries to learn about their work, how they got to where they are, and any useful suggestions.
Share tips and suggestions about skills to work on for job search.
Tutorials and code samples seem to be useful for a lot of people (here’s one recent example for Xarray and Google Earth Engine).
If you’re interested, please submit this form and I’ll go over them soon. Cheers!
Data Science / Engineering positions:
⭐️Aravind (TerraWatch Space) is hiring a research associate (remote) to lead an EO Market Report and build an EO Insights Platform.
Microsoft: Technical Program Manager, Earth Observation
Meta (Denver, CO): Net Zero Data Specialist
Liberty Mutual Insurance (Boston): Lead Analyst, CAT Modeler
Verisk (Boston): Applied Climate Scientist
Arrowhead General Insurance Agency: Catastrophe Analyst
Excarta: Product Lead for AI Weather Platform
WindBorne Systems (Palo Alto, CA): Numerical Weather Prediction Scientist
Rhizome: Software Engineer – Applied ML
Salient Predictions (Boston): Geospatial Data Engineer
Pachama: Forest Carbon Modeling Lead
Bayer (San Francisco): Senior Data Engineer
SAIC (Greenbelt, MD): Remote Sensing Software Engineer
Everstream Analytics (Atlanta, GA): Data Engineer
Speedwell Climate (Charleston, SC): Meteorologist and Data Analyst
World Bank / GFDRR: climate data scientist
City of Olympia: Climate Resilience Coordinator & Program Specialist
Cypress (Ocean Springs, MS): Environmental / Coastal Scientist
🇩🇪 Allianz SE Reinsurance Munich: Working Student, Cat Risk Management
🇦🇹 EODC (Vienna): Python Software Developer for EO Services
🇮🇹 World Bank (Frascati, Italy): Earth Observation Application Specialist
🕵️💵 Recent Fundings:
It’s not always great news and impressive funding announcements. Startup is a tough game! PitchBook data suggests that in 2023, about 3,200 startups have gone under. Still, it’s worth keeping an eye on fundings to know possible future job opportunities.
🇸🇬 Climate Alpha, a Singapore-based provider of AI-driven analytics platform raised $5M in seed funding.
Excarta has raised $2.5M seed funding for their AI-powered weather intelligence.
🇬🇧 Fathom, a flood risk modeling company based in the UK, was acquired by SwissRe.
🇩🇪 LiveEO, EO-based infrastructure and deforestation monitoring solutions, raised $10M.
Pachama has extended its Series B round with additional $9M to a total of $64M.
SynMax, a satellite data analytics company for monitoring industrial assets and dark ships, raised $13M.
Zeus AI was awarded DOE SBIR Phase I to develop multimodal foundation models for urban heat monitoring.
📚📖 Useful Resources:
I recently shared a tutorial about using python (xarray) & Google Earth Engine for geospatial analysis and how to generate high quality plots/maps. Check out the article in this link.
Salesforce Accelerator AI for Climate (deadline: January 29, 2024)
Los Alamos Nat. Lab is hosting the Applied Machine Learning Summer Research Fellowship. Learn more and apply here.
Climate Change AI summer school (2024) with both virtual & in person programs is now open to register.
Check out this awesome geospatial companies list curated by Christoph Rieke + this post on how to Start your Geospatial Career
Check out Climate Change AI newsletter: jobs, data, hackathons
HydroLearn CIROH Virtual Summer Hackathon & Workshop (Apply by 2/18)
4-hour EarthEngine and geemap workshop at AGU2023. Co-taught by Justin Braten, Samapriya Roy, Ph.D., and Qiusheng Wu
Postdoc / research positions:
Lynker (College Park, MD): Meteorologist Developer - Fire Weather and GIS
NASA Ames: ML Data Scientist
NASA NEX (Bay Area, CA): remote sensing scientists & data scientists
NASA JPL: Remote Sensing Applications for Wildfire Prediction and Monitoring
NASA (Washington, DC): Physical Scientist, AST Science Program Management
EPA (Corvallis, OR): air quality measurement scientist
California Air Resources Board: 4 Nature-Based Solutions Scientists
NOAA GSL (Boulder, CO): Research Physical Scientist
NWS-NOAA (Kansas City, MO): Meteorologist
NCAR:
Missoula Fire Lab (Missoula, MT): Physical Scientist
Collaborative Earth: postdoc - remote sensing
University of Virginia, two postdocs:
Johns Hopkins University: postdoc in urban atmospheric chemistry
Cal Poly SLO: Frost Postdoc Fellow - Ecological Informatics
Cornell's Center for Cities: 2 postdocs on Climate Mitigation
University of Chicago: postdoc on AI weather emulators for geoengineering
Stanford: Wildfire Insurance Policy
Uni Nevada, Reno: postdoc on Wildfire Simulation and Risk Engineering
Global Water Security Center (U Alabama):
Arizona State: postdoc on remote sensing of agricultural areas
University of Idaho: postdoc (USGS-funded) on Eco-hydrological Modeling
Utah State University:
Texas A&M: postdoc on Urban Resilience & Data Science/AI
Colorado State University: AI-CLIMATE Postdoc
🇨🇦 U Waterloo: postdoc on Mapping Incentives for Sustainable Agriculture
ECMWF: Multiple positions
🇬🇧 Imperial College London: Research Fellow in Climate Innovation
🇩🇪 LMU Munich: postdoc on Modeling Flood Resilience
🇳🇱 IVM-VU Amsterdam: postdoc on groundwater drought and adaptation
🇨🇭 ETH (Zurich): postdoc on compound climate/hydrologic extremes
🇮🇹 IRPI-CNR (Italy): 2 postdoc positions
🇸🇬 Centre for Climate Research Singapore: multiple research scientist positions on Weather Prediction, S2S Prediction, and High Performance Computing
🇸🇪 CLIMES (Stockholm): postdoc on AI and Impacts of Extreme Climate Events
🇦🇺 UNSW: 2 postdoc positions in Coastal Ecosystems Engineering
Monash University Indonesia: Research associate Global Mining Watch