Geospatial Jobs #58: Oct 21, 2024
Welcome to the 58th 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).
🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:
🤔😵💫 EarthDaily Analytics has acquired Descartes Labs, which is a bit confusing. For those not familiar with the subject, here’s a bit of background:
Antarctica Capital, a private equity (PE) firm, announced the formation of EarthDaily Analytics in Apr 2021 —> Antarctica Capital acquired Descartes Labs in Aug 2022 —> Descartes Labs acquired GeoSite in Apr 2024 —> Now in Oct 2024, EarthDaily (owned by Antarctica Capital) acquires Descartes Labs! A classic PE move :)
🇬🇧 Basecamp Research, a London-based biodiversity mapping platform, raised $60M series B funding.
Equilibrium Energy, a San Francisco-based renewable energy optimization platform, raised $39M Series B funding.
🇩🇪 OroraTech Secures €25M Series B funding for their predictive AI & global expansion. They also had a €20M contract with the ESA to support wildfire management in Greece.
🇨🇭 xFarm Technologies raised €36M to make agriculture more sustainable with AI.
💡📚 Useful Resources:
Morgan Stanley is now accepting applications for the 2025 Sustainable Investing Fellowship. It’s a 10-week program open to current graduate students.
Spatial Thoughts has launched a 30-day free challenge to learn Mapping and Data Visualization with Python.
Data Science / Engineering Positions:
🇮🇳 UNDP (New Delhi): Remote Sensing and Geo-Spatial Analyst
🇮🇳 Council on Energy, Environment and Water: Research Analyst
🇮🇳 WSP: GIS Analyst/CAD Professional
🇮🇳 IIT Gandhinagar: Multiple postdoc and associate research positions
Internships:
Mercy Corps: Geospatial Analytics & Mapping
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Renewable Energy Data Analysis
National Renewable Energy Laboratory: Water Power Numerical Modeling
Amazon (San Francisco): Research Scientist, Carbon Neutralization
AiDASH (Palo Alto, CA): Principal Data Engineer - Geospatial Platforms
Saildrone (Alameda, CA): Senior Software Engineer, Data
WindBorne Systems (Palo Alto, CA): Meteorological Analysis - Observations and NWP
Vaisala (Louisville, CO): Full-Stack Software Developer
Spatial Informatics Group: Full Stack Web Developer
HNTB (Santa Ana, CA): Geospatial Solution Developer
National Geography (Washington, DC): Senior Interactive Cartographer
Leidos: Computational Geoscientist
🇺🇸🇬🇧 Equilibrium Energy:
🇬🇧 Goldman Sachs (London): Data Engineering/Scientist – Sustainability Data
🇬🇧 Fathom (Bristol):
🇬🇧 Met Office (Exeter): Scientific Strategic Head
🇬🇧 Millennium (London): Meteorologist
🇬🇧 JBA Consulting: Senior Climate & Sustainability Analyst
🇧🇪 European Climate Foundation (Brussel): Data Analyst
🇨🇭 World Economic Forum (Geneva): Specialist, Climate Adaptation
🇵🇱 Orbify: Earth Observation Engineer
Postdoc / Research Positions:
NOAA's Office for Coastal Management (Alaska): 2 positions - Physical Scientist & Resilience Specialist
USGS (Reston, VA): Supervisory Physical Scientist/Geographer
National Weather Service:
Berkeley Lab: Postdoc - Biogeochemistry & Climate Change
Stanford: Postdoc - Geophysical modeling to address climate challenges
Virginia Tech: Postdoc, Nature-based Climate Solutions
U Alaska-Fairbanks: Postdoc - Snow Hydrology
Cal State University at Los Angeles: PostDoc or Research Scientist, AI-based Digital Twin
🇨🇦 United Nations U (Toronto): Researcher - Geospatial and climate analytics
ECMWF:
🇩🇪 Scientific Software Engineer (Bonn)
🇬🇧 Data Manager for ML Datasets (Reading, UK)
🇩🇪 ZALF: Postdoc - global crop modeling & climate change
🇮🇹 ESA (Frascati): Forest Applications Scientist
🇳🇴 The Arctic University of Norway: Postdoc - ice, cryosphere, carbon & climate