Geospatial Jobs #66: Dec 17, 2024

Welcome to the 66th 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 #63 is removed and it’s now freely accessible. Every week I think this is going to be the last issue in 2024, but then I find 50 more positions; a third of which are in Europe!

Please answer the following questions to help me evaluate ideas (answers are anonymous and I won’t know who responded and what not):

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• 🇦🇺 Fleet Space Technologies has closed a A$150M Series D funding to accelerate the discovery of critical minerals.

• Lumen Orbit (YC S24) has raised $11M seed funding for data centers in space.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• 🌥️ A few exciting weather forecast updates over the past week:

  • Google Maps Platform (GMP) Solar API: Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential

  • NVIDIA Earth-2: Advancing Solar Irradiance Prediction

  • JuaAI & Volue: AI-Weather-Based Fundamental Wind Forecasts

• NOAA has awarded UC San Diego’s StartBlue accelerator program $13.5M, which will provide support for ocean-based startups.

• Sage Impact Entrepreneurship Program: Apply to the equity-free accelerator program for early-stage, underrepresented startups.

• Climatebase Fellowship: the climate career accelerator to help ambitious mission-driven professionals supercharge their careers in climate.

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internship:

   1. Google[X]: PhD Residency - ML Modeling and Planning

   2. Ohio EPA: Summer 2025 Surface Water Intern

   3. United Nations (UNOOSA): water resource management using EO

   4. 🇮🇳 PierSight (Ahmedabad): GIS Analyst Intern

2. 🇮🇳 PierSight: Multiple engineering positions

3. Apple: Sr. Program Manager, Maps

4. Microsoft: Data Scientist, Energy System Modeler - PhD

5. Amazon: Sr. Research Scientist, Prime Air Navigation

6. BlackSky (Seattle): Principal Engineer, Image Processing

7. Floodbase: ML Engineer

8. First Street (New York): Flood Modeler

9. Environmental Defense Fund: Algorithms Software Engineer, MethaneSAT

10. ESRI: Software Development Engineer II - Spatial Statistics

11. The Weather Company: Senior Meteorologist

12. HabiTerre (St. Louis): Remote Sensing Scientist

13. Exponent (Los Angeles): Energy, Environment and Infrastructure Data Scientist

14. Leidos: AI/ML Software Engineer Geospatial

15. Development Seed: Frontend Engineer

16. 🇨🇦 GHGSAT (Montreal): Senior Technical Product Manager

17. 🇨🇦 Alberta RCMP: Geo-Spatial and Data Technologist

18. 🇬🇧 Energy Aspects (London): Senior ML Engineer - Earth Observation

19. 🇬🇧 Earthwave (City Of Edinburgh): Earth Observation Data Scientist

20. 🇬🇧 Space Intelligence: Senior Mapping Scientist

21. 🇩🇪 constellr: Multiple positions

22. 🇩🇪 Climatiq (Berlin): ML Engineer (NLP) - Climate Tech

23. 🇨🇭 Swiss Re (Zurich): Natural Catastrophe Specialist (Flood)

24. 🇮🇹 UNICEF (Rome): Chief (Computational Analytics and Geospatial Intelligence)

25. 🇮🇹 FAO (Rome): Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist

26. 🇦🇺 Geoscience Australia: Director, Digital Earth Data and Systems

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. PNNL: Computational Scientist - Earth Systems and Environmental Analysis

2. NIST Fire Research: Physical Scientist - WUI and prescribed fire modeling

3. EPA (Durham, NC): Physical Scientist - air pollution

4. NOAA (Ocean Associates, Inc): Oceanographic and GIS Program Analyst

5. John Hopkins U: Senior AI Researcher - Remote Sensing Applications

6. Yale Center for Geospatial Solutions:

   1. Remote Sensing Scientist (90637BR)

   2. Geospatial Lab Manager (90636BR)

7. U Chicago: Multiple postdoc position on climate topics

8. Stevens Institute of Tech: Postdoc - flood modeling

9. U Wyoming: Postdoc - AI, Agriculture, Energy

10. University of Dayton: Postdoc, glacial lake-climate interactions/modeling

11. United Nations U: JSPS-UNU Postdoc fellowship, sustainability

12. North Carolina State U: Postdoc - Wildland Fire and/or Watershed Hydrology

13. Auburn U: Postdoc - Ecology of Harmful Algal Blooms

14. Upper Colorado River Commission: Postdoc - irrigation efficiency, remote sensing, evapotranspiration

15. WestWater Research (Fort Collins, CO):

    1. Research Analyst

    2. Senior Associate

16. 🇨🇦 Ocean Networks Canada: Oceanographer

17. 🇬🇧🇩🇪 ECMWF: Data-driven Hydrological Modeller

18. 🇩🇪 Technical University of Munich: Academic Staff (PhD / Postdoc) for Big Geospatial Data Management

19. 🇩🇪 KIT: 3-year postdoc, ML for hydro-meteorological ensemble post-processing

20. 🇳🇱 TU Delft:

    1. Postdoc - Urban (Plastic) Waste Dynamics from Images with AI

    2. Postdoc - Energy and Water System Dispatch under Uncertainty

21. 🇦🇹 Austrian Academy of Sciences: Postdoc - global change and mountain regions

22. 🇫🇷 U de Lorraine: Postdoc - geophysical data for subsurface characterization

23. 🇮🇹 ESA (ESRIN): Visiting researcher, Satellite meteorological image processing