Geospatial Jobs #62: Nov 19, 2024

Welcome to the 62nd 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).

The paywall on issue #59 is now removed and it’s freely accessible. This issue includes 23 engineering positions (🇺🇸11, 🇬🇧6, etc.) and 12 research roles.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• 🇳🇴 Atlas.co raised $2M pre-seed to to become the Figma of geospatial data.

• 🇩🇪 Dryad Networks raised €6.3M for wildfire detection and drone-based suppression technology.

• KatRisk has been acquired by Technosylva. Glad to finally see the public announcement and congrats to the founding team.

• Matter Intelligence emerges from stealth with $12M seed funding.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Data science challenge: Telangana Crop Health Challenge

• Google research introduced Insights into population dynamics: A foundation model for geospatial inference

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

⭐️ Google[X] is hiring a Geophysics ML Engineer. The ideal candidate is proficient in Python and has experience building ML models on geophysical data (e.g. seismic surveys). If this is you, fill out this form and I’ll share it with the hiring manager.

• Seeing NVIDIA’s 2nd position within a week, then realizing how competitive it is:

1. NVIDIA: Senior Research Scientist - AI for Climate and Weather Simulation

2. Google: Developer Relations Engineer, Earth Engine

3. Land IQ (Sacramento, CA): Web Developer

4. Liberty Mutual: Regional Leader, Risk Control

5. Eagle Rock Analytics: Senior Atmospheric or Climate Scientist

6. Xcel Energy (Denver, CO): Meteorologist

7. First Street (New York): Director of Climate Implications

8. ESRI: Sr. Software Engineer – Geospatial Technology

9. WSP: Lead Climate Scientist

10. Alta (Reno, NV): Civic Data Analyst (Sustainable Mobility)

11. 🇨🇦 Wyvern (Edmonton, AB): Image Calibration & Validation Scientist

12. 🇬🇧 JPMorganChase (London): Climate and Nature Risk (Physical) Modeller

13. 🇬🇧 Climate X (London):

    1. Scientist (Loss modelling: physical risk)

    2. Staff Software Engineer (Python, React, AWS)

14. 🇬🇧 Space Intelligence: Senior Mapping Scientist

15. 🇬🇧 Treeconomy: Geospatial Scientist

16. 🇬🇧 Pinepeak (London): Founding Engineer

17. 🇩🇪 mapular (Berlin): Technical Lead

18. 🇪🇸 Technosylva: Geospatial Analyst, DevOps Engineer, QA Engineer

19. 🇦🇺 NSW Government: Principal Water Scientist

20. 🇦🇺 Natural Resources Access Regulator: Senior Spatial Analyst

21. 🇸🇬 AON: Climate Risk Analyst, Asia Pacific

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NASA: Support Scientist - Ecological Conservation

2. NOAA (Anchorage, AK): Supervisory Hydrologist

3. Berkeley Lab: Statistical Climatology Research Scientist

4. Princeton University: Research Software Engineer

5. NYU: Postdoc - Climate Risk & AI

6. UC Boulder - CIRES/NOAA: NCEI Software Developer – Geomagnetism Team

7. Yale U: Postdoc - Natural resource economics

8. ASU Water Institute: Postdoc - Mathematical Modeling, ML & Systems

9. Virginia Tech:

   1. Postdoc, Groundwater-Related Hazards

   2. Postdoc, space-borne INSAR in permafrost monitoring

10. 🇩🇪 BIFOLD: Postdoc - foundation models for Earth observation

11. 🇫🇮 Natural Resources Institute Finland: Postdoc - remote sensing