Geospatial Jobs #76: Mar 4, 2025
Welcome to the 76th 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 #72 is removed and it’s now freely accessible.
🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:
Adaptive Insurance raised $5M in funding
Albedo secures a $12M STRATFI contract.
Floodbase has secured a $5M investment to accelerate its parametric flood insurance.
Lumen Orbit raised $10M for space data centers and changed its name to StarCloud.
🇸🇬 Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) has launched a $25M Weather Science Research Programme to better predict tropical urban weather.
VerAI Discoveries raised $24M series B funding for AI-based mineral discoveries.
Weather Stream was awarded $2M Phase 2 SBIR contract from the Office of Naval Research.
💡📚 Useful Resources:
Rejection resilience: 8 tips to keep your job search alive
The job search often feels like an uphill battle, a relentless series of applications and interviews frequently met with the sting of rejection. If you've ever felt the weight of a 'NO’, you're not alone. I've navigated my share of rejections, and I understand how disheartening it can be. This article is born from those experiences, offering practical tips to help you not only survive the rejections, but thrive in spite of them. Let’s explore how to turn those setbacks into stepping stones.
Qiusheng Wu has launched a new GeoAI tutorial series for his newly developed python package. Check it out here.
Umbra Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Open Data: Free SAR data for several regions available on AWS.
Satellogic EarthView dataset is now openly available on AWS.
Applications now open for UN Climate Change’s Fellowship Programme
Data Science / Engineering Positions:
⭐️ A friend of mine is the founder of a seed stage startup and is looking for someone who’s experienced in computer vision, specifically for turning aerial imagery or photos of old maps into machine-digestible data for AI/ML. You’ll be joining a growing business with an amazing technical team. If you have the background and have a founder mentality (fast-moving, zero-to-one builder, thriving in ambiguity), please fill out this form.
Internships:
Amazon:
Google: Senior Data Scientist, Research, Operations Data Science
Salesforce (Seattle): Sustainability Analyst (Contractor)
First Street: Data Engineer
Rhodium Group (Seattle): Research Software Developer – Climate Impacts
Planet: Technical Program Manager, Hyperspectral & Product Manager
Near Space Labs: Full Stack Geospatial Software Engineer
The Weather Company: Scientist, deep learning for numerical weather prediction
KBR, Inc (Fulton, MD): Senior Application Development Meteorologist
Funga: Ecological Data Scientist
Union of Concerned Scientists (Washington, DC): Senior Climate Scientist (link2)
Dewberry (Fairfax, VA): Geospatial Data Analyst
Booz Allen Hamilton (Alexandria, VA): Geospatial Data Scientist
Amtex Systems Inc: Geospatial Engineer
MBTA (Boston): Resiliency Data Analyst
CEA Consulting (San Francisco): Director (Climate Solutions)
Southern California Edison: Energy Marketing & Trading Financial Analyst
🇨🇦 Computational Geosciences (Vancouver): Scientific Computing Specialist - ML
🇬🇧 Climate X (London): ML Engineer
🇬🇧 Metropolitan Police (London): Data Engineer - Geospatial
🇬🇧 Komodo Energy: Senior Software Engineer
🇧🇪 Climate KIC (Brussels): Climate and Earth Observation Officer
🇨🇭 Zurich Insurance: (Senior) Catastrophe Researcher
🇪🇸 ZenithalBlue (Barcelona): Earth Observation & Climate Data Specialist
🇩🇰 EUMETSAT: Research Fellowship roles
🇦🇺 QBE (Sydney or Melbourne): Catastrophe Modelling Research Analyst
🇮🇳 Aon (Bengaluru):
Postdoc / Research Positions:
Lynker (Silver Spring, MD): Senior GIS Developer
ORAU - NASA (Pasadena, CA) Postdocs:
Stevens Institute of Technology: Postdoc, hydrology/hydraulic & AI
U Vermont: Postdoc - life cycle assessment
Montana State U: Geospatial Core Technician
U Georgia Tifton: Research Technician, perennial grain crop
🇨🇦 U Alberta: Postdoc, Hydrology & ML
🇨🇦 U Toronto: Postdoc, Canadian Multi-scale Urban Index
🇬🇧 London School of Finance: Research Officer, Climate Adaptation Finance
🇬🇧 U Oxford:
🇦🇹 U Innsbruck: Postdoc, Nature-Based Solutions in Mountain Ecosystems
🇮🇹 Eurac Research: Postdoc in digital twins for grassland resilience and Technician in 3D modeling
Copernicus JRC: Scientist, application development for wildfire analysis