Geospatial Jobs #63: Nov 26, 2024

Welcome to the 63rd 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 #60 is now removed and it’s freely accessible.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• EarthOptics has raised $24M for their soil digitization and predictive agronomy.

• Gro Intelligence sold their IP to Almanac. They had closed down the business back in June 2024.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Data science challenge (in partnership with Deepmind): Inundata, Mapping Floods in South Africa ($10K prize).

• LEAP is hosting a hackathon on Harnessing ML to Improve Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Climate Predictions. Apply here (deadline Dec 16th)

• Foursquare has launched Open Source Places, a foundational open dataset featuring 100M+ global places of interest with 22 core attributes.

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

⭐️ PEC Water is hiring a water resources engineer. This is an amazing opportunity for the civil engineers out there.

1. Internships:

   1. UCAR (Boulder, CO): SIParCS Graduate Student Internship

2. 🇮🇳 Axelspace Corporation: Remote Sensing Specialist

3. Microsoft: Postdoc Researcher - Computational Environmental Sustainability

4. NVIDIA: Solution Architect, Earth-2 NVIS- New College Grad

5. Amazon Web Services (AWS):

   1. Applied Scientist, AWS Sustainability

   2. Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Sustainability Tech

6. Ai2: Backend Software Architect, EarthRanger

7. Chubb (Philadelphia): Senior Catastrophe Analyst

8. CoreLogic: Senior Geospatial Engineer (Open Source)

9. Technosylva: Senior Front-end Developer

10. AutoX: Data Scientist, Adverse Weather Adaptation

11. Carbon Mapper: Deputy Director for Impact

12. EDF: Senior Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems

13. Global Environment Facility: Climate Change Specialist

14. Anduril: Senior Hydrodynamic Modeling and Simulation Engineer

15. European Environment Agency: Expert, climate change adaptation

16. 🇺🇸🇩🇪 Siemens Energy: Principle Research Scientist - AI for Power Systems

17. 🇬🇧 Oxford Economics (London): Geospatial Data Scientist

18. OroraTech:

    1. 🇬🇷 SST Data Scientist (Athens)

    2. 🇬🇷 Senior Software Engineer (Athens)

    3. 🇩🇪 Technical Innovation Working Student (Munich)

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NWS (Sacramento, CA): Lead Meteorologist

2. NOAA:

   1. Physical Scientist

   2. GIS Analyst, marsh and wetland data

   3. Physical Scientist - data assimilation branch

   4. Multiple positions

3. USDA

   1. Research Hydrologist (Tifton, GA)

   2. ARS Fellow - Remote Sensing of Agricultural Conservation (Beltsville, MD)

4. Gulf of Maine Research Institute: Physical Oceanography Research Scientist

5. Stanford:

   1. Postdoc - economic development and environmental goals

   2. Postdoc - climate damage and adaptive capacity

6. NYU: Postdoc - AI & climate modeling

7. Princeton: Postdoc - Institutional and Human Dimensions of Energy Transition

8. U Chicago: Research scientist, AI weather forecasting

9. U Hawaii at Manoa: Postdoc - tropical climate variability

10. UC Davis: Postdoc - water systems

11. UC Santa Cruz: Postdoc - AI and climate

12. 🇪🇺 ECMWF: Data and Cloud Support Specialist

13. 🇬🇧 U Oxford: Postdoc - Earth Observation for nature finance

14. 🇩🇪 U Bermen: Postdoc - Environmental Geophysics

15. 🇮🇹 CIMA Research Foundation: Consultants on Disaster Risk Management