Geospatial Jobs #7: Jun 22, 2021
Welcome to the 7th 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:
🇺🇸 X (the moonshot factory) is hiring a technical lead for their climate change team (Mountain View, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Apple is hiring a senior GIS engineer, maps (Cupertino, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Chubb is hiring a research scientist, weather and geological data (Urbandale, IA): Link
🇺🇸 SwissRe is hiring a Nat Cat Specialist-Flood (Armonk, NY): Link
🇺🇸 AIR Worldwide is hiring an applied statistician-tropical cyclone modeling (Boston, MA): Link
🇺🇸 AON is hiring a Vulnerability Modeler Lead for US Flood (Chicago, IL): Link
🇺🇸🇬🇧 RMS is hiring Associate Model Analyst (grad opportunities) in Newark, CA, Hoboken, NJ, and London, UK
🇺🇸 Milliman is hiring a GIS programmer and a GIS intern (San Francisco, CA)
🇺🇸 McKinsey is hiring a Climate Data Scientist - Specialist (Denver, CO): Link
🇺🇸 WindBorne Systems is hiring a Data Assimilation and NWP Meteorologist (Palo Alto, CA): Link
🇺🇸 AER (a Verisk business) is hiring a satellite data scientist (College Park, MD): Link
🇺🇸 Planet is hiring a Geospatial Scientist, SAR Specialist: Link
🇺🇸 Sentera is hiring a backend software engineer and a geospatial analyst III (Minneapolis, MN)
🇺🇸 Gro Intelligence is hiring for multiple positions (New York, NY):
🇺🇸 CIBO is hiring a Computer Vision Scientist/Engineer (Boston, MA): Link
🇺🇸 Cloud to Street is hiring a radar remote sensing scientist: Link
🇺🇸🇨🇦 Climate Engine is hiring for multiple positions including a data scientist and a senior software engineer: Link
🇺🇸 Blue River Technology is hiring a machine learning engineer (Sunnyvale, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Kevala is hiring for multiple positions including a data scientist, software engineer-data science, and software engineer-backend (San Francisco, CA)
🇺🇸 PARC, a Xerox company is hiring a principal data scientist (Palo Alto, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Climate People is hiring a Principal Software Engineer - Climate, Carbon & Farming: Link
🇺🇸 PowerX is hiring a Climate Tech Data Scientist (New York, NY): Link
🇺🇸 MTRE is hiring a Climate Health Data Scientist to assess the health impacts of climate change (McLean, VA): Link
🇺🇸 World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is hiring a Conservation Data Scientist (Washington, DC): Link
🇺🇸 The World Bank is hiring a climate change specialist (Washington, DC): Link
🇺🇸 NOAA is hiring a senior hydrologist, GS-14 (Tuscaloosa, AL): Link
🇺🇸 UCAR is hiring a Software Engineer-Coastal Marine Modeling Branch and a Software Engineer - Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (Boulder, CO)
🇺🇸 USGS South Atlantic Water Science Center is hiring a Supervisory Hydrologist GS-13 (Raleigh, NC): Link
🇺🇸 USGS is hiring a hydrologist, GS9-12 (Portland, OR): Link
🇺🇸 PNNL is hiring an applied hydro-climatologist (Richland, WA): Link
🇨🇦 Edgecom Energy is hiring a senior data scientist (Toronto, ON): Link
🇬🇧 Subak is hiring a software engineer (climate): Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is hiring a Sr. R&D Staff Geospatial Artificial Intelligence and a postdoc (Computational Hydrologist)
🇺🇸 Assistant Project Scientist for the Climate and Global Change Lab at UC Davis: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on high-resolution multi-scale global climate simulations working with Mike Pritchard at UCI: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Urban Climate Extremes and Data/Model Integration working with Dev Niogi at UT Austin: Link
🇺🇸 Environmental Data Science postdoc position available at Johns Hopkins University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on remote sensing of coral reefs working with Tomoaki Miura at University of Hawaii: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on social-ecological dynamics of coastal systems working with Sarah Lester at Florida State University: Link
🇺🇸 Research associate (climate and water justice) available at Pacific Institute (Oakland, CA): Link
🇺🇸 Climate Assessment Analyst position available at North Carolina State University: Link
🇺🇸 Research hydrogeologist position (BSc or MSc) available at Boise State University: Link
🇺🇸 NSF postdoc fellowship opportunity for recent engineering grads (deadline July 6th): Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc position on remote sensing & ecohydraulics working with Jeremy Venditti at Simon Fraser University: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc position on flood hazards in urban environments working with MohammadReza Najafi at Western University: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc position on machine learning (LSTM) for streamflow modeling working with Prasad Daggupati at University of Guelph: To apply, email him
🇬🇧 2.5-year postdoc position (NERC funded) on climate risk analytics working with Paul Bates at University of Bristol: Link
🇩🇰 Danish Meteorological Institute is hiring 2 positions:
🇩🇰 2-year postdoc position on environmental epidemiology at the University of Copenhagen: Link
🇺🇸 Applications are open for fall 2021 NASA internships (US citizens only): Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
Sentera raised $25M series C funding to expand their integrated remote sensing, analytics, and IoT solutions to agronomists. Learn more
Hydrosat has raised $5M seed funding to deliver ground temperature data. The company was also awarded 3 SBIR contracts, and intends to work on drought, food security, water stress, wildfire, and defense and security. Learn more
InnerPlant, a San Francisco, CA-based maker of plant sensors for crop risk management, raised $5.7M in seed funding. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Papers With Code now hosts more than 4000 datasets of various types (e.g. image, timeseries, text, audio, etc.), including well-known ML training datasets such as MNIST and CIFAR10: Link
Radiant MLhub hosts many amazing ML ready datasets (e.g. land cover, flood, live fuel moisture, etc.) with an API for easy access + several tutorials on how to use the platform and how to analyze the data using Python
AI4EO has announced the AI4Sentinel2 challenge, which is focused on using AI for extracting agricultural insight from the 10m resolution Sentinel2 images (i.e. downscaling the naive 10m resolution to 2.5 meters). Learn more
DeepLearning.AI (by Andrew Ng) is hosting the first data-centric AI competition (deadline Sep 4, 2021). The competition will use a new dataset called Roman MNIST, a noisy collection of handwritten Roman numerals. Learn more
Twitter account to follow and learn from: David Montero Loaiza regularly shares short tutorials on coding and Google Earth Engine
📨💡 Suggestions and feedbacks are highly appreciated! Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter. To learn more about my background, visit http://ali.people.ua.edu/.