Welcome to the 52nd 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).
Data Science / Engineering Positions:
Apple Weather Software Engineer:
PhD-level meteorology focus: Boulder, CO or Cambridge, MA
More focus on ML and SWE: Boulder, CO or Cambridge, MA
Amazon:
Meta:
GEO analytics:
Spire (Boulder, CO): Senior AI Weather Scientist
Salient: Geospatial Data Engineer
MunichRe (Princeton, NJ): Analytics Engineer
TransRe (New York): Senior Research Analyst
First Street (New York): Geospatial Data Engineer - Climate Change
Verisk:
Terra AI (Sunnyvale, CA):
GuideHouse: Data Engineer (Geospatial Focus)
Deloitte: Imagery Intelligence Analyst
Leidos: Climate Data Scientist
DewBerry (Fairfax, VA): Geospatial Data Analyst
Booz Allen Hamilton (Arlington, VA):
Nature Conservancy (California): Fire ecologist
🇨🇦 ZestyAi (Toronto): Senior Data Scientist - Computer Vision
🇨🇦 NGIS: EO Data Scientist
🇬🇧 Fathom (Bristol): Catastrophe Model Developer (Flood Vulnerability)
🇬🇧 AON (London): Climate Research Analyst
🇬🇧 MSCI (London): Climate Researcher - Emissions
🇬🇧 Ocean Ledger (London): Geospatial Data Engineer
🇩🇪 AIRMO: Satellite Image Data Analyst
🇨🇭 Zurich Insurance: Catastrophe Researcher
🇨🇭 Jua AI:
🇳🇱 Space4Good:
🇨🇿 SpaceKnow (Prague): ML / Data Science Engineer
🇵🇹 +Atlantic (Lisbon): Two Geodata Scientists
🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:
Earthshot raised $5.5M Series A funding for their carbon marketplace.
First Street raised $46M series A1 to develop their correlated risk model and global coverage.
🇮🇳 GalaxEye Space raised $6.5M series A to launch its first multi-sensor satellite
🇮🇳 Mitti Labs raised $3M seed funding to tackle methane emissions in rice farming.
Rhizome raised additional $1M seed for their new platform to alleviate wildfires.
💡📚 Useful Resources:
An amazing tutorial using Fused.io and HuggingFace for geospatial ML
The FutureCrop Challenge: Predict global gridded maize and wheat yields
Climate Change AI has announced the 2024 edition of Innovation Grants program (deadline: September 15). Up to $150K per proposal.
The Climatebase Fellowship, the climate career accelerator, is now seeking applications.
Twilio.org Climate Tech Prize for nonprofit innovators in climate (deadline: Aug 14th)
Postdoc / Research Positions:
SAIC (NASA): Research Scientist
KBR (NASA): Data Scientist
ORNL: Postdoc - S2S predictability
NCAR: Postdoc - fire-hydrology interaction
NOAA CIRES: Postdoc - carbon cycle modeling
NOAA: Multiple positions (scientist, meteorologist, meteorologist)
LEAP (Columbia): Associate research scientist - downscaling for sustainability
UC Berkeley:
Stanford:
USGS: Climate Data Fellowship
U Washington: Postdoc - EO for urban heat stress
Arizona State U: Postdoc - urban climate challenges in the southwest US
U Idaho: Two postdocs - remote sensing and eco-hydrological modeling
Marquette University: Postdoc - hydrology and water quality modeling
🇪🇺 ECMWF:
🇬🇧 U Reading: Two postdocs on extreme weather events and climate observations
🇩🇪 Leipzig U: Scientific Researcher (Programmer) - Earth System modelling
🇳🇱 IVM-VU University Amsterdam: Postdoc - Sustainable Land Use
🇮🇹 Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia: Postdoc - ML for EO
🇦🇺 UNSW: Postdoc - Water Security
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