[ES_JOBS_NET] Earth Data Fellowship Opportunity at Development Seed (Washington DC)

Britta Voss brittamv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 14:27:25 MDT 2018


 Passing along from a friend -- this is a cool opportunity for someone
interested in geospatial data and startups with social impact, and gives
the fellow unique access to Amazon cloud resources. It's short term (10
weeks) but with permanent potential.

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Fellowship post: https://developmentseed.org/careers/fellowship/
Contact: aimee at developmentseed.org

*What can we learn from vast archives of satellite and drone imagery?
Development Seed, with support from the Earth on AWS program at Amazon Web
Services, is offering a fellowship to work on innovative projects using big
Earth data to address big global challenges.*

*As a Development Seed / Earth on AWS Data Fellow, you will collaborate
with the Development Seed team to advance the field of Earth observation
data. You will apply machine learning and / or data processing to advance
our understanding of how Earth data can be organized and mined for deep
insights. You will develop open source software that will contribute new
Earth data formats, architecture or applications.*

*Your work will help Development Seed partners (organizations like the
World Bank, the Red Cross, the Global Resilience Partnership, and NASA) to
make better decisions and deliver impactful services. This fellowship is
offered in a collaboration with the Earth on AWS program. Fellows will have
access to AWS computing resource and will receive support and training from
AWS machine learning experts.*

*The Fellowship is a full-time 10 week position (with permanent potential)
and will allow you to learn about the industries and communities we work
in, and push our team and projects forward. Your main focus will be on one
of our open-source projects that supports accessible, open earth data.
However, you will also have the ability to directly contribute to projects
with leading civic and government organizations and have positive real
world impact.*

*Ideal candidates have experience with:*

   - *Earth data formats (Cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)*
   - *Machine Learning Frameworks (TensorFlow, Torch, Caffe, etc.)*
   - *AWS Services (EC2, Batch, SageMaker, Rekognition, Lambda, S3)*
   - *Computer Vision (OpenCV, Scikit, etc.)*
   - *Remotely sensed data and associated libraries (GDAL, QGIS)*
   - *Node.js or Python*

*If this sounds like you, send your resume to jobs at developmentseed.org
<jobs at developmentseed.org>. Tell us about yourself and what you’d love to
work on at Development Seed. Not sure you tick all the boxes? We encourage
you to apply - we have a culture of learning, and if this job description
gets you excited, we want to hear from you.*

*Development Seed is a group of developers and designers who create
positive social impact with open tech and open knowledge, specializing in
platforms that derive useful insights from complex data. We build open
tools to allow organizations to benefit from powerful machine learning
methods. This includes Label Maker and our Skynet suite which make it
easier to create feature extraction models anywhere in the world. Read more
about our work on our blog, and check out our latest post around our latest
machine learning work.*

*Earth on AWS provides open access to dozens of massive earth data archives
in machine accessible formats, including Landsat, NextRad, GDELT, and
OpenStreetMap data.*

*This position is based in DC.*
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