Geospatial Jobs #57: Oct 14, 2024
Welcome to the 57th 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).
I’ve removed the paywall on issue #55 (after ~2 weeks) and it is now freely accessible.
It’s wonderful to hear about the success stories of job seekers that this newsletter has helped. Here’s a recent one, an internship position I shared on issue #54.
🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:
Impulse Space, Los Angeles-based Space Spacecraft delivery startup, has raised $150M funding.
Kobold Metals has raised $491M to expand their work on AI for finding critical minerals.
🇨🇦 Montreal-based venture studio Diagram expanded into climate tech with the launch of its $58M fund, Diagram Climate Tech.
💡📚 Useful Resources:
The 2024 SECOORA Data Challenge (with two $3,500 prizes) invites projects that support coastal communities. Proposals are due October 25.
ESA's African Research Fellowships 2024-2025 call is now open, offering an incredible opportunity for scientists to deepen their expertise in Earth Observation (EO).
The full UFS replay dataset—30 years of analysis-like products for atmosphere, ocean, and land— has been released by NOAA (available on AWS S3 and GCP in NetCDF and Zarr formats).
Introduction to Machine Learning for Earth Observation — a free online course.
Data Science / Engineering Positions:
🇩🇪 Internship: EUMETSAT (Darmstadt)
Brightband: Product Lead - weather
Amazon:
Google - X: Geophysics ML Engineer
Muon Space (Mountain View, CA): Remote Sensing Data Scientist
Orbital Insight: Multiple positions (Senior Data Scientist, Computer Vision Scientist, Senior DevSecOps Engineer)
[C]worthy (Boulder, CO): Senior Software Engineer
Yard Stick (Oakland, CA): Soil Scientist
Esri (Redlands, CA): Industry Solutions Specialist - Public Safety & Disaster Response
The Nature Conservancy: Spatial Conservation Science Program Coordinator
World Bank (Washington, DC): Data Analyst
Booz Allen Hamilton (St Louis, MO): GEOINT Analyst
Clarasight: Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer
🇬🇧 National Trust (Swindon): Head of Geographic Information & Remote Sensing
🇨🇦 Aquanty (Waterloo): Junior Climate Data Scientist
🇦🇪 Microsoft AI For Good (Abu Dhabi): Principal and Senior Research Scientists
Postdoc / Research Positions:
Argonne Lab:
NASA JPL: Postdoc - Earth Action for Air Quality
National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, OK): Research Physical Scientist
Bonneville Power Administration (Portland, OR): Hydrologist
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
University of Maryland: GIS Application Developer/Programmer
New York City Dep. of Env. Protection: Research Scientist in Water Supply
USDA: Postdoc Fellowship to Modernize Hydrologic Models for High-Performance Computing
Harvard: Postdoc Fellowships for Indians (Climate Fellowship)
U Oklahoma: GIS Technical Lead
Texas A&M: Postdoc - Flash Drought Monitoring and Resilience
U Arizona: Postdoc - impact of extreme weather events on crop-water dynamics
Boise State University: Postdoc, snowmelt-informed water supply forecasts
U Virginia: Postdoc - sustainable and resilient built environments
CIROH - U Alabama: Associate Director of Science and Research Operations
Alabama Water Institute: Postdoc - continental scale hydrologic simulation
North Carolina State U: Postdoc - Satellite Remote Sensing
Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI): Postdoc, watershed-scale hydrology and water quality modeling
🇪🇺 ESA: Postdoc - Earth Observation for Polar Science
🇬🇧 British Geological Survey: 3 Senior Hydrogeology posts
🇱🇺 Luxembourg Inst of Science and Tech: Postdoc - Remote sensing of crop stress