Geospatial Jobs #6: Jun 8, 2021
Welcome to the 6th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a bi-weekly career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
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Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 Amazon is hiring a Manager, Research Science (atmospheric science): Link
🇺🇸 Apple is hiring a Geospatial Content Analyst/Engineer - Apple Maps: Link
🇺🇸 Snap is hiring a Software Engineer, Satellite/Aerial/3D Maps: Link
🇺🇸 Netflix is hiring a Data Analyst, Sustainability (Los Gatos, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Stripe is hiring a Strategy and Operations, Climate: Link
🇺🇸 Facebook is hiring a Water Team Manager: Link
🇺🇸🇬🇧 Moody’s is hiring a climate researcher (environmental, social and governance) and a product strategy - climate solutions
🇺🇸🇬🇧 IBM (The Weather Company) is hiring for multiple meteorologist positions: Link
🇺🇸🇱🇺 Spire is hiring for multiple positions including a senior meteorologist and a research scientist (Boulder, CO)
🇺🇸 Capella Space is hiring for Head of Imagery Products (San Francisco, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Descartes Labs is hiring an Applied Scientist - Sustainability: Link
🇺🇸 Mapbox is hiring a Geospatial Data Engineer: Link
🇺🇸 Climate Corporation is hiring a senior data scientist: Link
🇺🇸 AtlasAI is hiring an AI data scientist (Palo Alto, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Four Twenty Seven (/Moody’s) is hiring a Data Content Analyst: Link
🇺🇸 Cloud to Street is hiring a machine learning engineer and a hydrologist
🇺🇸 Hydrosat is hiring a data scientist-image calibration and a software engineer-image processing
🇺🇸 Blue River Technology is hiring a data scientist (Sunnyvale, CA): Link
🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺 Arup is hiring for multiple risk and resilience consultant opportunities: Link
🇺🇸🇳🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧 South Pole is hiring a climate impact data scientist (Amsterdam, Berlin, or London) and an agricultural value chains intern (NYC)
🇺🇸 Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is hiring a Data Management Analyst: Link
🇺🇸 EPA’s Water Data Integration Branch (WDIB) is hiring a Biologist/Ecologist, GS-11 (Washington, DC): Link
🇬🇧 Cervest is hiring a scientific software engineer and a computer vision scientist
🇬🇧 Verisk is hiring a Senior Environmental Data Analyst (London, UK): Link
🇫🇮 ICEYE is hiring a Geospatial Data Analyst: Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 Multiple positions available at Cornell University:
Research Support Specialist–STAARS Fellowship Program working with Chris Barrett (research for young African/Asian applied economists): Link
Postdoc position on agriculture economics working with Hale Ann Tufan and Miguel Gomez: Link
Postdoc position in fisheries acoustics and spatial ecology: Link
🇺🇸 Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) is hiring for multiple positions:
🇺🇸 CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder) is hiring for multiple positions:
🇺🇸 Postdoc fellowships on sustainable energy and its intersection with food, water, transportation, human health, or the environment at Stanford: Link
🇺🇸 3 postdoc positions at Woodwell Climate Research Center (Falmouth, MA): Physical Climate Risk & Resilience, Forest Carbon Monitoring, Arctic Carbon Monitoring
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Machine Learning for ocean mesoscales at NYU: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Statistical Downscaling for Heat & Health Applications at Princeton University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (NASA funded) on radar optical sensor fusion for flood mapping working with Mirela Tulbure at North Carolina State University (NCSU): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (machine learning and data science) at Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas (IDRT) of Texas A&M (salary up to $5k/month): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (NASA funded) on flux footprints, information theory, and satellite-based ET working with Allison Goodwell at UC Denver: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (NSF funded) on continental-scaled freshwater ecology with Tyler Wagner and Ephraim Hanks at Penn State University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on weather and climate change research at FM Global: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc/lab manager position working with Marccus Hendricks at the Stormwater Infrastructure Resilience & Justice (SIRJ) Lab at UMD: Link
🇺🇸 Assistant Research Professional - NWC Research Software Engineer, Flood Inundation Mapping working with Prasad Gogineni at the University of Alabama: Link
🇨🇭 Research Scientist on econometric and geospatial analyses of sustainable supply chain policies working with Rachael Garrett at ETH Zurich: Link
🇨🇭 Multiple postdoc positions on climate modeling and data science working with Reto Knutti and Erich Fischer at ETH Zurich: Link
🇨🇭 Postdoc positions on atmospheric science & machine learning working with Tom Beucler at the University of Lausanne: Link
🇩🇪 2 postdoc positions (3-years) on land-based, climate change mitigation modeling at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position on hydrological extremes and human flow-influences in the Alps working with Manuela Brunner at the University of Freiburg: Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position on Earth System Modeling at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position (ERC funded) on impact of extreme events on trees working with Rupert Seidl at the Technical University of Munich (TUM): Link
🇳🇱 2 postdoc positions (ERC funded) on climate warming and fires in the northern high latitudes at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Link
🇮🇹 Multiple 2-year postdoc fellowships available at the University of Milan: Link
🇮🇹 Postdoc position on quantum computing for Earth observation: Link
🇮🇹 Postdoc position on EO for Earth System Science: Link
🇦🇹 Researcher position on snow avalanche detection and forecasting for the Austrian Alpine region at the University of Graz: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
🇺🇸 Climavision, a Louisville, KY-based weather services and intelligence platform, raised $100m in funding. Learn more
🇺🇸 NCX (formerly SilviaTerra) recently raised $20M is their series A funding for their data-driven forest carbon marketplace. SilviaTerra was a small forestry business for almost a decade, and just a few months ago they had raised $4M seed funding. The additional series A funding should help them expand their business. Learn more
🇺🇸 Another private weather forecast company has been founded. Currently, a weather service that is partnering with Twitter, was launched by Eric Holthaus on Jun 1, 2021. It will be covering 16 large cities across the US to begin with.
🇩🇪 OroraTech successfully closed €5.8M ($7.1M) Series A funding round to further expand their wildfire detection and monitoring services. The funding will help them to launch their first satellites and scale their geospatial data analysis platform. They plan to launch over 100 nanosatellites by 2026. Learn more
🇨🇦 Croptimistic has raised $5.2M in Series A funding to grow their SWAT (soil, water, and topography) MAPS technology. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Pangeo showcase is an amazing weekly webinar series that provides community meetings on various topics at the intersection of climate science and data science. Learn more
WMO has launched a 30k CHF data science challenge to use AI to improve sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) predictions (deadline: Oct 31, 2021): Link
DrivenData has launched a $50k data science challenge on rectifying satellite imagery for time-sensitive mapping (deadline: Jul 19 and Aug 2, 2021): Link
ZindiAfrica is hosting a $10K Lacuna Correct Crop Field Detection challenge to correct location errors for accurate yield prediction (deadline: Jun 13, 2021): Link
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