Geospatial Jobs #82: Apr 15, 2025

🎉 4 years & 9,000+ subscribers!

Welcome to the 82nd 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 #78 is removed and it’s now freely accessible.

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🍻🎉 It’s been 4 years!

Thanks so much to all of you subscribers and everyone who’s been supportive over the past 4 years! This newsletter wouldn’t have grown without you—your shares and kind words made all the difference. I really hope you find it useful and I hope you continue sharing it with those who may find it helpful.

There are so many interesting ideas that I’m itching to pursue, but there’s not enough time (and my employer doesn’t allow some of them 😐). Maybe I’ll one day feel this is the right path for me and then I dare to go all-in to pursue some of these ideas:

• Mentorship / career coaching for job seekers

• Online geospatial data science or engineering course / bootcamp tailored for specific sectors

• Sourcing technical employees (but avoiding the pitfalls of traditional recruiting)

• Helping early-stage startups with ideation, MVPs, fundraising, product market fit, and go to market strategy

• Helping founders find the right funding sources: compiling resources for VCs, grants, corporate startup programs, RFPs, possible partnerships, etc.

• Maybe grow into a pre-seed fund?

• Community meetups and private targeted events

• At least get a few sponsors for the newsletter 😀

For those more experienced and familiar with the subject, I’d love to hear your insights 🙏

Here are a few plots for subscriber growth, audience location, and traffic (post views):

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Campbell Global closed its Forest & Climate Solutions Fund II at $2.3 billion to invest in forest-focused, climate-aligned startups.

• 🇦🇺 Gridsight raised $7.5M series A funding for its AI-powered platform that helps electricity networks manage and distribute renewable energy.

• 🇨🇦 KorrAI raised $1.6M pre-seed funding to build satellite based infrastructure monitoring powered by AI & InSAR.

• Satellogic was awarded a $30M contract to provide near-daily and ultra-low latency analytics to a defense and security customer.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Check out our recent work on agentic reasoning and geospatial AI featured on Google Research blog: integrating LLMs & foundation models for Earth insights.

• Data Science challenge: SpaceNet 9, Cross-Modal Satellite Imagery Registration ($50,000 prize)

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. PNNL: Masters Intern - Global Urban Modeling in US

   2. Caltech: GIS Irrigation Mapping Intern

   3. Pivot Energy (Denver, CO): Intern, GIS

   4. Boundless Impact Research & Analytics (NYC): Climate Impact Intern

   5. 🇨🇦 Planet: Multiple internships

2. 🇮🇳 SatSure: Multiple positions

3. 🇮🇳 RMSI: Flood Risk Modeler

4. 🇮🇳 TerrAqua UAV solutions (Kanpur): Remote Sensing Project Coordinator

5. 🇮🇳 Greenated Clima Tech: GIS Analyst

6. McKinsey & Company:

   1. C&I Analytics Analyst - Geospatial Analytics (San Jose, CA)

   2. 🇧🇪 Data Scientist II - Agriculture Analytics, ML / Geospatial (Brussels)

7. JP Morgan (NYC): Risk Management - Climate, Nature and Social Risk - Executive Director

8. Chloris Geospatial (Boston): Sr. Full Stack Engineer

9. Terra Global Capital (Oakland, CA): Remote Sensing Scientist & Geospatial Software Engineer

10. Pattern Energy (San Francisco): Energy Systems Data Scientist

11. World Bank (Washington, DC): Senior Digital and Energy Specialist

12. Powerline: Senior Optimization Software Engineer & Full-Stack SWE

13. EigenRisk: Assistant Product Manager, CAT modeling

14. CAL FIRE: RDS II - Technosylva Software Subject Matter Expert

15. ERM: Consultant - Geospatial Scientist

16. Kaiser Permanente (Portland, OR): Data Reporting and Analytics Consultant IV - Geospatial

17. CAE USA (Arlington, TX): Geospatial Engineer Senior

18. Stantec (Walnut Creek, CA): Senior Environmental Data Management Specialist

19. Appalachian Mountain Club (Massachusetts): GIS Scientist (another link)

20. 🇨🇦 GHGSAT (Montreal):

    1. Senior Product Manager

    2. Senior Technical Product Manager

21. 🇬🇧 Amazon (London): Water Solutions Manager, AWS EMEA Energy & Water

22. 🇬🇧 MSCI (London): Quantitative Researcher - Climate Indexes

23. 🇩🇪 Nala Earth (Berlin): Senior Software Engineer

24. 🇧🇪 VITO: Senior Scientist - Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Forestry

25. 🇨🇭 SwissRe (Zurich): Geo Product Manager

26. 🇨🇭 Meteomatics: C++ Software Engineer for Weather API

27. 🇨🇭 World Meteorological Organization (Geneva): Multiple positions

28. 🇮🇹 e-GEOS (Rome): Product Manager, Earth Observation

29. 🇱🇺 RSS-Hydro (Kayl): Junior Flood Modeller

30. 🇦🇺 Geoneon (Hobart, Tasmania): Applied Scientist

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. National Weather Service: Data Analyst/Scientific Programmer

2. ORAU (NASA):

   1. Climate Data Analysis Using GPS Radio Occultation

   2. 100s of other open positions on their Linkedin

3. USDA-FS (Raleigh, NC): Economic Analysis of Hardwood Management and Novel Markets for Biochar

4. Stanford: Postdoc, microwave remote sensing of live fuel moisture from SMAP

5. UC Irvine: Postdoc, Extreme Events in Climate Model Simulations

6. Rutgers U: Postdoc, Flood Modeling & Early Warning Systems

7. Oregon State U: Postdoc, Spaceborne LiDAR Remote Sensing for SWE Mapping

8. Auburn U: Postdoc, Geospatial Investigations of Water and Wastewater Infra

9. 🇬🇧 U Oxford: Postdoc, Reimagining Nature Finance

10. 🇳🇴 Geological Survey of Norway: Postdoc, electromagnetic geophysics

11. 🇳🇿 U Waikato: Postdoc, Environmental Planning

12. 🇮🇳 IIT Hyderabad: Project Scientist, hydrology & climate