Geospatial Jobs #74: Feb 19, 2025

Welcome to the 74th 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 #71 is removed and it’s now freely accessible.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• MyRadar was awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract from the Office of Naval Research.

• 🇮🇳 Niruthi was awarded a $3.9M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to deliver AI-powered, personalized advisories to farmers in Odisha, India.

• 🇬🇧 Renew Risk raised €5.9M for their physical risk modeling and renewable energy assets.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Amini Canopy or Crop Challenge: detect forests from farms in West Africa

• Bayer Foundation Fellowships are now open to students and teachers interested in agricultural, climate and health.

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. Google-X: AI resident (MS or PhD student) planetary-scale decarbonization

   2. Muos Space: Data Science Summer Intern

   3. Moodys: Model Development1, Model Development 2, Model Development 3, Modeling Analyst

   4. Texas Parks and Wildlife: GIS Analysis

   5. NASA GSFC: 2 computer science interns

   6. NASA DEVELOP

   7. LEAP: Summer positions on AI and Climate

   8. 🇬🇧 Nature Portfolio (London): Editorial Data Analyst Intern

2. 🇮🇳 Niruthi (Bhubaneswar): Remote Sensing Analyst

3. 🇮🇳 KaleidEO (Bengaluru): Principal Satellite Image Processing Engineer

4. Google:

   1. Software Engineer, Bellwether

   2. Technical Program Manager, Data Sustainability, Google Climate Operations

   3. Program Manager III, Energy and Climate Advocacy, Google Sustainability

   4. Product Manager II, Google Maps

5. Berkshire Hathaway: Flood Engineer

6. BlackSky: Multiple engineering positions

7. MapBox: Data Engineer II, Search Boundaries

8. Cascadia Consulting Group: A few climate-related positions

9. World Bank Data Lab: Satellite Image / Damage Assessments Consultant

10. SOUTH COAST AQMD: Air Quality Specialist

11. 🇨🇦 GHGSAT (Montreal): Senior Product Manager

12. 🇨🇦 City of Ottawa: Geospatial Data Analyst

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

14. 🇬🇧 Verisk (London): Director, Head of Exposure Analytics

15. 🇬🇧 Zulu Ecosystems (London): Flood Scientist - Natural Flood Management

16. 🇬🇧 Ofcom (London): Geospatial Data Scientist

17. 🇩🇪 Klim (Berlin): Head of Data

18. 🇧🇪 VITO: Climate Impacts Researcher

19. 🇧🇪 SCK CEN: Environmental Data Analyst

20. 🇦🇺 Sunwater (Brisbane): Spatial Analyst

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. SSAI (Greenbelt, MD): Atmospheric Data Assimilation Research Scientist

2. UCLA: Researcher & Data Analyst for Homelessness Research

3. MIT Energy Initiative: Postdoc, remote sensing of soil carbon & land degradation

4. U Delaware: Postdoc, sea-level rise and salinity impact on coastal soils

5. Utah State U: Postdoc, ML Application in Hydrology

6. North Carolina A&T: Postdoc - Water Resources Engineering

7. 🇨🇦 U Alberta: Postdoc, Bird modeling and remote sensing

8. 🇪🇺 JRC: Scientist - forests fires, Earth observation and geospatial analysis

9. 🇬🇧 U Liverpool: Postdoc - AI and ML to decode satellite imagery

10. 🇬🇧 U Southampton: Postdoc - Sustainable Future Textiles

11. 🇮🇪 Trinity College Dublin: Postdoc - plant resistance to pathogens

12. 🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: Postdoc, km-scale Earth-system model

13. 🇳🇱 ESA (Noordwijk): Head of the Earth Science Division

14. 🇧🇪 Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB): Postdoc - ice sheet modelling

15. 🇧🇪 Ghent U: Postdoc, vegetation remote sensing and radiative transfer

16. 🇫🇷 Meteo France (Toulouse): Research engineer, AI weather forecasting

17. 🇩🇰 Aalborg U: Postdoc, Space-based Flood Awareness System for Africa

18. 🇸🇬 Centre for Climate Research Singapore: Multiple research positions