Geospatial Jobs #5: May 25, 2021
Welcome to the 5th issue of Geospatial Jobs newsletter prepared by me, Ali Ahmadalipour. About 6 weeks ago when I published the first issue, I was not sure how often it is possible to share this newsletter and how many positions I can share each time. I was also not sure how much time I need to devote to it and how the feedback will be. I am glad that I have been able to share hundreds of geospatial positions and many useful resources with everyone. I have kept the format simple and the newsletter short and efficient, which makes it easy to follow and does not take too much time from me. So far, it seems that the bi-weekly format works well and it is a practical timeline to gather a decent number of positions and not miss their deadlines before publishing. Notably, based on the website stats, people have been quite interested in the Useful Resources section too, which is great to know and indicates how they are improving their skills to stand out. Keep up the good work and best of luck in your job search :)
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Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 SwissRe is hiring a Nat Cat specialist (earthquake): Link
🇺🇸 AIR is hiring a Scientist, Hydrometeorology and Statistics (Boston, MA): Link
🇺🇸 RMS is hiring a senior geospatial developer: Link
🇺🇸 Arup is hiring a senior risk and resilience consultant (San Francisco, CA) and a risk and resilience consultant (Boston, MA)
🇺🇸 Amazon is hiring for 3 positions:
🇺🇸 BASF is hiring a data scientist - weather and climate: Link
🇺🇸 AtlasAI is hiring a machine learning engineer: Link
🇺🇸 Coiled is hiring a data science evangelist: Link
🇺🇸 DTN is hiring an Operational Marine Meteorologist: Link
🇺🇸 Cloud to Street is hiring a hydrologist: Link
🇺🇸 Upstream Tech is hiring a backend engineer: Link
🇺🇸 Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is hiring for 3 positions:
🇺🇸 US Forest Service (USFS) is hiring a hydrologist, GS12 (Arcadia, CA): Link
🇺🇸 U.S. Agricultural Research Service is hiring a research hydrologist, GS12-15 (Boise, ID): Link
🇺🇸 Rhodium is hiring a research analyst, energy & climate: Link
🇺🇸 TetraTech is hiring a research assistant position on remote sensing and agtech in emerging markets: Link
🇺🇸 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is hiring a water quality environmental analyst (Livermore, CA): Link
🇺🇸 ICF International is hiring a climate resilience consultant: Link
🇺🇸 Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is hiring a disaster and climate change risk consultant support (Washington, DC): Link
🇺🇸 The Conservation Biology Institute is hiring a geospatial analyst (Corvallis, OR): Link
🇺🇸 University of Texas-Arlington is hiring a natural resources specialist: Link
🇬🇧 Cervest (London, UK) is hiring for multiple positions: Climate Scientist - Downscaling, Climate Scientist - Climate Models Diagnostics, and Data Engineer
🇫🇮 ICEYE is hiring an InSAR Analytics Engineer: Link
b. Postdoc/research positions:
🇺🇸 Postdoc position to study climate science and explainable AI (XAI) with Elizabeth Barnes at Colorado State University: Link
🇺🇸 3 postdoc positions at Cornell University:
Agricultural finance and climate resilience working with Ariel Ortiz-Bobea and Jennifer Ifft: Link
Energy and agricultural land use analytics working with Ariel Ortiz-Bobea: Link
R&D and agriculture productivity in a changing climate with Ariel Ortiz-Bobea and Robert Chambers: Link
🇺🇸 2 postdoc positions on land use, carbon cycle, and machine learning working with César Terrer at MIT: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc positions available at Caltech for developing Earth system model (ESM): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on flood risk assessment using satellite data and machine learning (NASA funded) working with Beth Tellman at the University of Arizona: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on coastal flood modeling at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (computational hydrologist) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on remote sensing hydrology & integrated modeling working with Hoori Ajami at UC Riverside: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on computational ecohydrology and land surface modeling working with Xu Liang at University of Pittsburgh: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on forest biodiversity and its relation to forest functioning working with Jingfeng Xiao at the University of New Hampshire: Link
🇺🇸 3 postdoc positions on resilient infrastructure, drinking water systems, and stormwater modeling working with Christopher Chini and Justin Delorit at Air Force Institute of Technology (Dayton, OH): Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position on regional Earth system modeling at the University of Augsburg: Link
🇮🇳 Postdoc position on air quality at world research institute (WRI) in New Delhi, India: Link
📊🇺🇸 Internship positions for developing climate communication materials at Climate Central: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇺🇸 Coiled, a DataOps and AIOps platform that seeks to increase access to scalable computing, has raised $21M in series A funding. Founded by the initial author of Dask just a year ago, the company is on a mission to create a platform that gives data scientists the power of cloud computing and machine learning without today’s limitations. Learn more
🇺🇸 AtlasAI was recently awarded the Phase II of NSF-SBIR grant (~$1M) and is planning to grow their product innovation team by hiring for several machine learning and data science roles (announced by their CEO).
🇺🇸 Unfolded.ai—a geospatial analytics platform for data unification, enrichment, and visualization—has been acquired by Foursquare. This is great news since Unfolded raised $6M seed funding just about 4 months ago! Learn more
🇬🇧 Cervest, a London, UK-based AI-powered climate intelligence company raised $30M in series A funding. Such a strong investment can help them develop their position in the risk management marketplace, not the best news for other startups in this sector, such as Jupiter, I guess: Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Free (and carbon neutral) short course: Getting started with Dask, developed by Coiled and Talk Python: Link
Dask is a free and open source python library that helps scale your data science workflows and provides a complete framework for distributed computing in Python.
Geographic Software Design - A free GeoPython course by Qiusheng Wu with 38 videos (18 hours) that teaches practical skills for developing open source packages for geospatial analysis & interactive mapping: Link
📨💡 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/.