Geospatial Jobs #8: Jul 13, 2021
Welcome to the 8th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more). It has been 3 months since I shared the first issue, and over 800 people have subscribed to the newsletter thus far. I have heard a few success stories that the newsletter helped people get a job offer, which is fascinating and rewarding to me knowing that I have had a tiny role in advancing someone’s career. If you also applied to the positions listed on the newsletter and got a job offer, I will be glad to hear about it :)
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Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 Indigo is hiring multiple positions (Boston, MA or Remote):
🇺🇸 Impact Observatory is looking for a machine learning scientist: Link
🇺🇸 GreenInfo is hiring an associate director (SF Bay area): Link
🇺🇸 Colaberry is hiring a Computer Vision and Image processing Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 Axiom Data Science is hiring an environmental data engineer and a software engineer: Link
🇺🇸 First Street Foundation is hiring a hydrologist (Brooklyn, NY): Link
🇺🇸 FM Global is hiring a Senior Lead Research Scientist (Flood Modeling): Link
🇺🇸 Finite Carbon is hiring a data engineer: Link
🇺🇸 Water Institute of the Gulf is hiring a Senior Data Scientist and a Geospatial Analyst (Baton Rouge, LA)
🇺🇸 NASA JPL is looking for a SAR/InSAR algorithm engineer: Link
🇺🇸 Desert Research Institute (DRI) is hiring a Hydrologic Land Surface Processes Modeler: Link
🇺🇸 Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL) is hiring an Applied Hydro-Climatoligist (Richland, WA): Link
🇫🇷 Axa is hiring a Flood Risk Modeler (Paris, France): Link
🇦🇺 JBP is hiring a senior flood specialist and a numerical modeler: Link
b. Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 Multiple postdoc positions available at the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) at University of Maryland: Link
🇺🇸 Research scientist position on Earth System Modeling at Clima Caltech: Link
🇺🇸 NASA JPL is hiring 2 postdoc positions on remote sensing and coastal hydrology: Link
🇺🇸 Berkeley Lab (LBNL) is hiring an Earth Science postdoc: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on machine learning and climate science (part of the M2Lines) available at Princeton GFDL: Link
🇺🇸 Hydrological Research Technician at University of Northern Arizona: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Satellite Monitoring of Coral Reef Bleaching at Arizona State University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on machine learning for fisheries/ocean acoustics at University of Washington: Link
🇺🇸 2 postdoc positions working with Hoori Ajami available at UC Riverside:
🇺🇸 Postdoc fellowship on Great Lakes Basin Regional Climate Modeling at University of Michigan Ann Arbor (CIGLR): Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Land Use Policy Impact Analysis available at Boise State University: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on Remotely sensed data with water system models available at Texas A&M: Link
🇺🇸 Geologic/Hydrologic Data Analyst position available at UT Austin: Link
🇨🇦 2-year postdoc fellowship on Ocean Observation, Analysis and Prediction available at the University of British Columbia: Link
🇨🇦 Postdoc position on Nonstationary Compound Flooding working with Reza Najafi at Western University: Link
🇩🇪 Senior scientist position at the Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics of Technischen Universität Hamburg working with Nima Shokri: Link
🇩🇪 2 postdoc positions available at Universität Leipzig on Remote Sensing and Biodiversity and Atmospheric Scientist
🇨🇭 Postdoc position on climate extremes research, data science and Earth System Modeling working with Sonia Seneviratne at ETH Zurich: Link
🇳🇱 Postdoc position on socio-hydrological modeling of drought-to-flood events working with Anne Van Loon at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Link
🇫🇷 Postdoc position on modeling vegetated spaces in urban environment and thermo-hydric coupling working with Pierre-Antoine Versini at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech: Link
🇵🇱 4-year postdoc position (!!) on water permafrost interactions available at Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences: Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
It is a great time for Earth observation companies. Planet Labs is set to go public through a merger agreement with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) at $2.8bn valuation (they operate more than 200 satellite and generated over $100M revenue last year). The satellite imagery startup Satellogic (based in Uruguay) is also going public via SPAC at $850M valuation.
On a side note, Impact Observatory, which is based in Washington DC and founded by some of the former Descartes Labs employees, is a small scale startup that seems to be on track for further growth.
The Agtech sector is also full of interesting investment news, with over 250 venture capital deals and over $4bn investment so far in 2021 (on track to be a record investment year). Notably, Benson Hill—which operates a platform that uses ML, simulations, and genetics to optimize plant growth—is going public via $2bn SPAC.
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Radiant Earth Foundation shares a monthly newsletter (ML4EO Market News), which provides great updates about new methodologies, datasets, tutorials, webinars, data challenges, workshops, and much more. Check it out and subscribe to it through this link: https://www.radiant.earth/2021/07/12/june-2021-ml4eo-market-news/
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