Geo-AI Data Scientist: Earth Observation & LLMs

University of Alabama in Huntsville; Huntsville (AL); Hybrid; USD 67,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Alabama in Huntsville seeks a Data Science Research Scientist for the EarthRISE Project Office. You will co-develop Earth-observation driven data solutions, integrate Geo-AI workflows, and support cross-cutting needs across the EarthRISE program.

The ideal candidate has strong background in computer science, remote sensing, ML, cloud computing, and LLM/Geo-AI integration, and will collaborate with NASA centers, publish results, and contribute to workforce development in

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in these disciplines is desired.
• Experience with NASA and/or other federal, state, local, tribal, or private sector organizations is desired.
• Earth science geospatial data analysis experience, including math, statistical & scientific data processing automation, and raster data processing of temporal datasets is desired.
• Experience integrating AI systems with cloud-native geospatial platforms including STAC APIs, CO-Gs, Earthdata services, Google Earth Engine, AWS Open Data, and distributed geospatial processing environments is desired.
• Experience in writing and developing technical manuscripts is desired.
• Record of publication commensurate with level of experience is desired.
• Experience integrating multimodal AI and foundation models including Vision Transformers (ViTs), Earth Observation Foundation Models, multimodal LLMs, and geospatial deep learning architectures for image, raster, and text analysis is desired.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and validate autonomous scientific decision-support systems by combining Earth Observation datasets, statistical methods, machine learning, and LLM-based reasoning to support operational and policy-relevant applications is desired.
• Experience in developing, tuning, and deploying machine learning-based algorithms, including geospatial artificial intelligence to address real-world problems is desired.
• Strong experience teaching, skills building, curriculum development, knowledge management, and workforce development is desired.

Responsibilities

• Provide Data Science and technical expertise across a set of thematic areas in support of EarthRISE.

Skills

Data science

Geo-AI

Machine learning

Cloud computing

Geospatial analysis

Remote sensing

Geospatial workflows

LLM integration

Scientific publications

Team collaboration

Tools

STAC APIs

COGs

Earthdata services

Google Earth Engine

AWS Open Data

Distributed geospatial processing

Job description

The University of Alabama in Huntsville seeks a Data Science Research Scientist for the EarthRISE Project Office. You will co-develop Earth-observation driven data solutions, integrate Geo-AI workflows, and support cross-cutting needs across the EarthRISE program.

The ideal candidate has strong background in computer science, remote sensing, ML, cloud computing, and LLM/Geo-AI integration, and will collaborate with NASA centers, publish results, and contribute to workforce development in