Sr. Hydrologist/Data Scientist
Espoo, Uusimaa, Finland
ICEYE
Gain access to timely and reliable SAR imaging and NatCat Insights from the world's leading New Space SAR satellite constellation.Position: Sr. Hydrologist/Data Scientist
Location: Espoo, Finland
Hiring Model: Hybrid
Who are we?
We are a Finnish-based international New Space company with employees from more than 57 nationalities. Our team is a tight-knit group of experts from areas including engineering, software development, and radar technology. We’re innovative, driven people who strive for excellence in everything we do. Being advocates of our corporate culture, we value teamwork and curiosity, and we know how to have fun!
What do we do?
ICEYE is building and operating its commercial constellation of small Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites with SAR data available to customers. Our satellites acquire images of Earth at any time – even when it’s cloudy or dark – providing commercial and government partners with unmatched persistent monitoring capabilities. Information derived from our SAR images helps customers make data-driven decisions to address time-critical challenges in various sectors, such as maritime, disaster management, insurance, and finance.
What are we looking for?
To support the company’s growth, we are looking for a Sr. Hydrologist/Data Scientist in Espoo, Finland to join our Geospatial Analytics R&D Team. You will report to the Director of Analytics in this position.
About the role?
ICEYE flood solutions empower insurance, first responders, and government clients to provide timely support to people whose livelihoods are impacted following natural disasters such as fluvial and pluvial flooding, hurricanes, cyclones, and more. The Sr. Hydrologist will guide our model development for multiple hydrological effects to improve our geospatial data processing and solutions delivery teams.Responsibilities
- Build and modify evidence-based hydrological flood models for global flood analysis and flood predictions for ICEYE products.
- Leveraging ICEYE’s archive of past flood analyses, SAR imagery, tools and external datasets
- Refine the models to ensure the high performance of flood products and close agreement of flood extent and depth observations with internal and third-party field measurements.
- Guide models account for rainfall, terrain, land use/land cover & other sources for optimised hydrological modelling and sensitivity analysis to the different factors affecting flooding
- Guide Model development of multiple types of hydrological effects to improve geospatial data processing and solutions, delivery teams
- Automate flood mapping workflows to support scalable solutions development
Requirements
- Expert in hydrology modelling using tools like (WCA2D, Caddies, LISFlood, etc.)
- Experience with 1D or 2D hydrological modelling
- Experience in the application of flood models to real-world use cases
- Experience leveraging remote sensing imagery to inform hydrological workflows
- Experience/expertise with coastal flooding/storm surge
- Experience/expertise with pluvial flooding
- Experience/expertise with riverine/fluvial flooding
Preferred:
- Leading small teams of engineers a plus
- Experience in data or water resources engineering
- Proven software experience with Python
- Experience with cloud scaling models a plus
Benefits
- A job that matters in a dynamic New Space environment with a scale-up approach
- An independent role with a supportive and diverse work environment
- Occupational healthcare, occupational and private insurance
- A yearly benefit budget to spend as you wish (i.e. on sport, transport, wellness, lunch, etc.)
- Relocation support (i.e. flight tickets, accommodation, relocation assistance) is Optional if the job requires it
- Time for self-development, research, training, conferences, or certification schemes, including access to a company-paid language course.
- Inspiring and collaborating offices and silent workspaces enable you to focus.
- A wide variety of the best coffee, tea, snacks, and sweets to accompany your daily space mission
Diversity& inclusion are core values at ICEYE. We are passionate about building and sustaining inclusive and equitable working and learning environments for all staff. We believe every member on our team enriches our diversity by exposing us to a broad range of ways to understand and engage with the world, identify challenges, and discover, design, and deliver solutions.
Could this be the role for you? Apply now to start your journey with ICEYE.
We are making the impossible possible together.
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Olha Pryshlyak
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