Geospatial Jobs #47: Apr 24, 2024

Welcome to the 47th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climate-tech, 🌽ag-tech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).

It’s been 3 years now!

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Data Science / Engineering positions:

1. Schmidt Sciences (New York):

   1. Program Scientist, Climate

   2. Director, Climate Initiatives

2. Amazon:

   1. Geospatial Data Engineer, WW Sustainability

   2. Geospatial Software Developer Engineer (short term contract)

3. Watershed:

   1. Environmental data scientist, financial services (New York)

   2. 🇬🇧 Data Scientist (London)

4. Atmospheric G2:

   1. Meteorological Data Scientist

   2. Director of Quality Assurance

5. KatRisk: Chief Risk Modeler

6. Eagle Rock Analytics: Senior Atmospheric or Climate Scientist

7. Umbra: Radar Software Engineer

8. Maxar: Geospatial Analyst

9. CoreLogic: Principal Meteorological Software Engineer

10. Verisk:

    1. Product Analyst- Atmospheric Science (Remote)

    2. 🇬🇧 Senior Geospatial Data Analyst (London)

11. Booz Allen Hamilton (Arlington, VA): Advanced Earth Scientist

12. LMI: Energy and Sustainability Data Engineer

13. Galehead Development: Geospatial Data Engineer II

14. Kaiser Permanente (Pasadena, CA): Geospatial Developer

15. Internships:

    1. Agerpoint: Geospatial Data Analyst Intern

    2. MSCI Boston, MA): ESG & Climate Research Intern

16. 🇨🇦 TC Energy: Analyst, Quantitative Energy

17. 🇬🇧 ClimateX (London):

    1. Hazard Model Validation Analyst

    2. Data Scientist

18. 🇬🇧 ICE (London): Climate Modelling Analyst

19. 🇬🇧 Moodys (London): Analytics & Modeling Analyst

20. 🇬🇧 SynMax (London): Data Scientist, Energy

21. 🇩🇪 constellr: Senior Remote Sensing Scientist

22. 🇦🇹 United Nations (Vienna): Geospatial Data Scientist

23. 🇪🇸 Mitiga Solutions (Barcelona): Sr. CAT Modeler (Wildfire)

24. 🇦🇺 SmartSat CRC: EO & Remote Sensing Specialist

25. 🇮🇳 GalaxEye (Bangluru): Data Processing Engineer

26. 🇮🇳 Pixxel (Bangalore): Hyperspectral Image QA

27. 🇲🇾 Think City: Spatial Analyst

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundings / Updates:

• The Bezos Earth Fund has announced the AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge – up to $100M of grant awards.

• Geosite has been acquired by Descartes Labs!

• HawkEye360 has secured $40M debt commitment.

• 🇫🇷 Iceberg Data Lab has raised $10M Series A funding for their environmental data solutions platform.

• 🇫🇮 ICEYE has signed a $93M growth funding round.

• 🇮🇱 Momentick has raised $7M seed funding for satellite-based emission monitoring.

• Orchard Robotics has raised $3.8M to build robots and AI for precision farming.

• Satellogic announced a $30M strategic investment

• 🇳🇿 Starboard Maritime Intelligence has closed a NZ$5 million seed funding.

• 🇬🇧 Unwritten has raised $3.5M seed funding to work on financial risk of climate transition.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Elemental Excelerator is now accepting applications for climate solutions with deep community impact. Learn more

• AI4EO challenge: detect building age using satellite data and street view photos

• Kaggle competition ($50,000 prize): LEAP - Atmospheric Physics using AI (ClimSim)

• Kaggle competition: Probabilistic forecasting I: Temperature

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Postdoc / research positions:

1. LLNL: Postdoc - ag solutions for climate change mitigation

2. NOAA: Multiple scientist, postdoc, and Student Trainee positions

3. NOAA GFDL: Postdoc, climate model evaluation

4. Climate Energy Lab: 3 postdocs / research scientists, climate change

5. Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: Air Quality Modeler

6. Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA): Research Analyst - Climate/Environmental Security

7. Stanford: Postdoc - Quantitative analysis, economic development and climate

8. California Air Resources Board: Research Scientist

9. UCLA: Postdoc, big spatial data and environmental health

10. TAMU: Postdoc, rangeland remote sensing NPP models

11. WHOI: Postdoc, coastal dynamics & permafrost

12. Virginia Tech: Postdoc, EO for groundwater resources

13. UNC Chapel Hill: Research Analyst, climate/migration/housing

14. U Southern Mississippi: Postdoc, Fisheries ecosystem modeling

15. 🇨🇦 Western Uni: Postdoc, climate-geological multi-hazard

16. 🇨🇦 U Calgary: Postdoc, hydrological extremes under climate change

17. 🇪🇺 ECMWF: Research software engineer - flood forecasting

18. 🇬🇧 UCL: 2-3 postdocs on Multi-hazard Risk and Urban Resilience Modelling

19. 🇬🇧 U Exeter: Postdoc, Climate Change and Global Health

20. 🇩🇪 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Postdoc, crop modeling

21. 🇳🇱 Delft University: Postdoc, Microwave Remote Sensing of Vegetation

22. 🇨🇭 ETH: Postdoc, compound climate/hydrologic extremes

23. 🇨🇭 University of Zurich: Postdoc, Remote Sensing of Environmental Changes

24. 🇫🇷 One Forest Vision: Research scientist, EO for African forests

25. 🇫🇮 Aalto University: Postdoc, Water and Environmental Engineering

26. 🇸🇦 KAUST: Postdoc (and remote consultancy) in AI/ML for Climate Resilience