Geospatial Jobs #123: Feb 3, 2026

Welcome to the 123rd issue of Geospatial Jobs, a newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climate-tech, 🌽ag-tech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).

The paywall on issue #119 is removed and it’s now freely accessible. This issue contains ~40 job positions.

🚨 Seeking volunteers (again 😀):

Last week, I hosted a free webinar and shared some practical insights, followed by a great Q&A with lots of thoughtful questions. I received several messages afterward from people saying they found it quite useful, which was really encouraging. It made me want to do more of these sessions; maybe once a quarter (or possibly more often). I’m also often contacted by employers who are hiring for specific roles. Right now, I don’t have a strong way to track who might be a great fit, and how confident I am about them. That’s something I’ve been thinking about more proactively, and I’ll share more on that soon.

For now, I’m looking for one volunteer for February and March (the next 8 issues). This would take about 2 hours of your time per week and it mainly involves editing and formatting links in the same style I use in this newsletter. Your help would free up my schedule a bit, which I’d love to use to be more helpful in this world :) If this resonates with you, please email me or send me a message on LinkedIn. Cheers!

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• 🇵🇱 Rainbow Weather raised $6M Seed funding for their high-res climate and weather forecasting platform.

• Zanskar raised $115M series C for AI geothermal exploration.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Cloud Native Geospatial (CNG) Forum 2026 is happening October 6-9 at Snowbird, Utah (Speaker proposals due May 17).

• Youth Climate Justice Fund offers grants up to $40,000 to roups advancing climate and environmental justice.

• The Moonshots for Development (M4D) Open Innovation Challenge is live! $1M in grants available to entrepreneurs using AI and/or geospatial analysis.

• NASA is bringing “cloud-like” capabilities to traditional Earthdata formats.

• Planet has ~100 open hyperspectral data on their Open STAC Catalog. They are developing a competition for researchers to submit work using these open data.

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PhD positions:

1. 🇦🇹 U Vienna: Resilience to Prevent and React to Socio-Natural Hazards and Risks

2. 🇱🇺 U Luxembourg: Climate-driven landslide risk prediction

3. 🇮🇳 IIT Indore: NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR)

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. Google DeepMind: Student Researcher on AlphaEarth

   2. Google X: 2026 PhD Residency, Computer Vision (Tapestry)

   3. Atmospheric G2 (Manchester, NH): Weather Operations and Research

   4. PNNL Energy and Environment Internship

   5. RAND/DARPA Geoeconomics Summer Study (DC)

   6. SoranoAI (San Francisco): SWE intern

   7. Arup (San Francisco): Risk & Resilience Engineering Intern

   8. U Florida: AI & Agroeconomics

   9. 🇱🇺 LIST: Python × Environmental Data

   10. 🇮🇹 ESA Graduate Trainee – Earth Observation Foundation Modelling

2. Tesla: Software Engineer, Robotaxi, Maps & Navigation, Vehicle Software

3. Google: Senior Research Scientist, Earth AI

4. Meta (Menlo Park, CA): Water Analyst

5. 🇺🇸🇳🇱 Uber: Senior Scientist | Matching, Membership, Maps (another ‘)

6. Zeus AI (Cambridge, MA): Research Software Engineer

7. Sunairio: Senior Data Scientist in AI Weather & Climate Science

8. Stand: Product Visualization Engineer

9. Pixxel (Los Angeles): Image Processing Scientist - Geometric

10. Matter Intelligence: Senior Geospatial Scientist

11. SkyServe: Geospatial Software Developer

12. Climate Central: Associate Product Manager

13. Zanskar (Utah): Multiple positions including Senior Geophysicist &

    ML Engineer

14. DroneDeploy: Software Engineer, Fullstack & Lead QA Engineer

15. Arup (San Francisco): Senior Resilience & Climate Adaptation Engineer

16. Syngenta (Durham, NC): Computation Agronomy Scientist

17. Denver Water: GIS Analyst/GIS Sr. Analyst

18. San Francisco Bay: Research Data Analyst, GIS

19. 🇨🇦 GHGSAT (Montreal): Geospatial Data Engineer

20. 🇬🇧 Hastings Direct (Leicester): Senior Geospatial Data Scientist

21. 🇩🇪 Strava (Berlin): Map Platform Engineer

22. 🇩🇪 Seqana (Berlin): ML Software Engineer

23. 🇳🇴 7Analytics (Bergen): Hydrologist / Catastrophe Risk Modeller

24. 🇳🇴 Norwegian Meteorological Institute: Researcher / Scientific Programmer

25. 🇬🇷 GEOSYSTEMS HELLAS (Athens): Backend Engineer, Frontend Developer and Geospatial Software Engineer

26. 🇦🇺 DTN (Sydney): Casual Meteorologist

27. 🇮🇳 WeatherCast Solutions: Weather Analyst

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NOAA (NESDIS): two Physical Scientists, satellite data for hazard mitigation

2. Alabama Water Institute: Postdoc, Coastal Observatory

3. 🇨🇦 U Laval: Postdoc, Hyperspectral Imaging for Plant Phenotyping

4. 🇬🇧 Carnfield U: Two Research Fellow in Environmental Sensors & Sensing Wastewater

5. 🇩🇪 U Hamburg: Research Associate, decarbonization dynamics of companies

6. 🇩🇪 UFZ: Scientist, quanten computing for catchment hydrology

7. 🇩🇪 KIT: Postdoc, Forest Carbon Cycling, Respiration and NPP

8. 🇳🇱 Wageningen U: Postdoc, Socio-Environmental Spatial Data Infrastructures

9. 🇮🇹 Eurac Research: 3 research positions, Earth Observation

10. 🇫🇮 Aalto U: Postdoc, water and digitalisation

11. 🇬🇷 U Athens: Scientific Software Engineer – EO, ML & Digital Twin for Wildfires

12. 🇮🇳 LUMS: Research Associate or Assistant, basin-scale hydrological model