Geospatial Jobs #59: Oct 28, 2024

Welcome to the 59th 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 #56. Check it out if that’s useful. This issue contains over 50 engineering positions (33 US-based and the rest mostly across Europe and Canada) as well as 21 research positions (17 of which are US-based).

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• 🇨🇦 Wyvern, an Alberta-based hyperspectral imagery startup, raised $6M to expand to the US market.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• The latest issue of GeoAI Unpacked is out and it explores AI-based weather forecasting. Take a look if that topic sounds interesting.

  GeoAI Unpacked #2: AI for weather forecasting

• Conservation X Labs is calling on innovators to submit solutions for the Fire Grand Challenge (over $630K in prizes).

• Aravind (from TerraWatch Space) is planning EO Summit 2025, and he’s accepting sponsors for it. Learn more here.

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

🌊 A pre-seed stage startup working on extreme events risk and insurance is looking for a technical member to lead the climate and data analytics efforts. Check out this link to learn more and apply.

1. 🇮🇳 Swiss Re (Bengaluru): Specialist Cat Model

2. 🇮🇳 GalaxEye Space (Bangalore): Geospatial Engineer, Agriculture

3. 🇮🇳 SCOR (Maharashtra): Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst

4. Google-X (Mountain View, CA): ML Engineer, Project Tapestry (Fixed Term)

5. Pachama (San Francisco): Applied Science Team Lead

6. Development Seed: Technical Project Lead

7. Sofar Ocean (San Francisco):

   1. Senior Research/Applied Scientist

   2. Research/Applied Scientist

   3. Distributed Sensing Scientist

   4. Senior Backend API Engineer

8. Upstream Tech: Backend Software Eng. & Solutions Eng. - HydroForecast

9. Xcel Energy (Denver, CO): Wildfire Data Scientist

10. Southern California Edison (Rosemead, CA): Climate Science Predictive Analytics

11. Maxar (Westminster, CO): Geospatial Software Developer

12. Environmental Defense Fund:

    1. Software Engineer, Algorithms– MethaneSAT

    2. Senior Climate Scientist

13. Jupiter: Support analyst (6 months contract)

14. Carbon Direct: Soil Scientist

15. Arva Intelligence: Full Stack Engineer with Agricultural Experience

16. Corteva Agriscience (Johnston, IA): Data Scientist, Global Seed Operations

17. Spatial Informatics Group (SIG): Cloud Engineer

18. AECOM: Geospatial Full Stack Developer

19. Guidehouse (Springfield, VA): Data Engineer - GIS

20. Justice Climate Fund: Director of Research, Impact, & Outcomes

21. Colorado Dep. Public Health & Environment: Air Emissions Data Specialist

22. City of Boston:

    1. Geospatial Data Engineer

    2. Senior Data Scientist

23. Texas Water Development Board (Austin): Flood Modeling Data Analyst

24. Fairfax County Government (Fairfax, VA): GIS Analyst III

25. Placer County Water Agency: Power Market Analyst

26. TIST: Carbon Technical Lead

27. 🇨🇦 Wyvern (Edmonton): Image & Calibration/Validation Scientist

28. 🇨🇦 Confluvio (Montreal): Senior Geospatial Developer - Hydrology & Conservation

29. 🇨🇦 Government of Alberta (Edmonton): Wildfire Data Scientist

30. 🇬🇧 RMS (London): Moody's Insurance Solutions Graduate Program 2025

31. 🇬🇧 Verisk (London): Research Associate

32. 🇬🇧 Gallager Re (London): Expert CAT Model Developer

33. 🇬🇧 Systemiq Ltd. (London): Geospatial Data Scientist

34. 🇬🇧 Soil Benchmark (London): Full Stack Developer - Sustainable Agriculture Software

35. 🇬🇧 Intellect Group (London): Junior Environmental Data Analyst

36. 🇩🇪 repath: Principle Climate Impact Engineer

37. 🇩🇪 World Wide Fund: Geospatial Analyst

38. 🇨🇭 MeteoSwiss (Zurich): ML Engineer for Weather and Climate

39. 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇫🇷 constellr (multiple locations):

    1. Senior Remote Sensing Scientist

    2. Image Processing Operator

    3. Full-Stack Engineer

    4. Senior Cloud Engineer

40. 🇫🇷 Onera (Tolouse): Internship - Satellite signal & noise modeling

41. 🇫🇷 Absolut Sensing (Toulouse): Senior Software Engineer

42. 🇮🇹 Copernicus (Rome): Satellite & Ground Segment Engineer

43. 🇮🇹 World Food Programme (Rome): Targeting Analyst Consultant

44. 🇪🇸 UNICEF (Valencia): Consultancy - Geospatial DevOps Engineer

45. 🇫🇮 Soilwatch (Helsinki): Geospatial Engineer

46. 🇿🇦 Jua AI (Cape Town): Senior Software Engineer

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NASA: Postdoc - Space Science, Surface Processes and Geomorphology

2. LLNL: Postdoc - numerical optimization and ML

3. NOAA (NWS): federal scientists, part-time

4. USGS (Laurel, MD): Geographer/Physical Scientist (Data Scientist)

5. Desert Research Institute (DRI): Postdoc - Spatial Machine Learning

6. Midwest Climate Hub (Ames, IA): Agronomist/Physical Scientist

7. CIRA, Colorado State: Data Assimilation/Machine Learning Intern

8. Penn State: Associate Research Professor, Climate

9. MIT: Postdoc - wind farm wake modeling

10. ASU: Postdoc - Weather Modification by Optimal Chaos Control

11. Rice U: EEPS Pan Postdoc Fellowship

12. Columbia U: Postdoc fellowship in Earth, Environmental, and Climate Sciences

13. UT Austin: Postdoc - Remote Sensing Environmental-Social Change

14. Auburn U: Postdoc - Geospatial Investigations of Water and Wastewater Infrastructure

15. CU Boulder: Postdoc - ML and Environmental Data Science

16. UC Santa Barbara: Postdoc - Data Center Sustainability Modeling

17. U Buffalo: Postdoc - wildfire resilience

18. 🇪🇺 ECMWF:

    1. Scientist, Convection in global weather prediction

    2. Scientist – ML for Hybrid Modelling

19. 🇬🇧 British Antarctic Survey: Postdoc - Ice Sheet Modeller

20. 🇧🇪 Université libre de Bruxelles: Postdoc - Climate change & foreign policy