Geospatial Jobs #132: Apr 7, 2026

Welcome to the 132nd issue of Geospatial Jobs, a newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climate-tech, 🌽ag-tech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).

Shout out to Mahrukh Niazi and Matt Hatami who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Antaris raised $28 Million Series A led by WestWave Capital

• BlackSky has been awarded a multi-year, sole-source $99 million U.S. government IDIQ contract

• 🇪🇸Xoople raised $130M Series B, bringing their total funding to $225M

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Y Combinator and Google DeepMind are hosting their first Startups Day on April 24th in San Francisco.

• ESA Φ‑lab Geospatial Foundation Models Challenge (webinar April 8): combining multimodal GFM embeddings for tasks like land-cover segmentation and other SDG-aligned applications.

• Future Earth Early-Career Fellowship (apply by April 15): supports early career researchers working on interdisciplinary sustainability solutions aligned with the SDGs

• NASA Lifelines Ready for Impact Challenge (apply by May 1): 4-month incubator to develop and scale SAR, hyperspectral, thermal, and GeoAI solutions for crisis response and decision-making.

• Yale GIS & Remote Sensing Accelerator (apply by April 3 / May 4): two 5-day programs for Yale affiliates offering hands-on training in GIS and remote sensing.

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PhD positions:

1. Georgia Tech: Energy Geoscience and Engineering

2. 🇨🇦ETS: AI for the built environment and urban climate

3. 🇳🇱 Utrecht: Soil Mapping with Machine Learning

4. 🇫🇮 Oulu: Arctic Alpine Hydrology

5. 🇨🇭 ETHZ: Hybrid Hydrological Modelling

6. 🇨🇭 ETHZ: Hydrology & Climate Impacts

7. 🇨🇭 U Bern: Modelling of Climate Tipping Points

8. 🇩🇪 KIT: 6 Fully Funded PhD in Environmental Sciences

9. 🇦🇺 U Newcastle: Conservation & Restoration

10. 🇸🇬 Singapore: Urban Climate Modelling

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. Insurance for Good (CA): Insurance and resilience intern

   2. 🇬🇧Moody’s (London): Model Development Intern

2. Amazon (Austin, TX): Sr. Product Manager, Technical, AWS Geospatial

3. DoorDash (San Francisco): GeoSpatial Engineer, DoorDash Labs

4. Lyft (San Francisco): Data Science Manager, Mapping

5. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) (Boston or California): Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist (Risk Modeling Focus)

6. Planet (San Francisco) - AI Geospatial Assistant team:

   1. Software Engineer, Applied GenAI Apps

   2. Software Engineer, AI Systems & Infrastructure

7. CNN: Senior Editor, CNN Weather Features

8. Western Weather Group (Chico, CA): Senior Software Engineer

9. Watershed (San Francisco): Forward Deployed Sustainability Engineer, Sustainability AI

10. KatRisk (New York, Remote): Multiple Positions

11. First Street (New York): Software Engineer

12. ORNL (Oak Ridge, TN): Geospatial Software Engineer

13. LLNL: Energy Resilience Data Scientist

14. TerrAdapt (Remote, USA): Multiple Positions

15. LA28 Olympics (Los Angeles): Manager, Mapping Designer (Cartographer)

16. Envicom Corporation (California): GIS Specialist / Cartographer

17. The Ember Alliance (Fort Collins, CO): GIS Specialist 1

18. Consolidated Safety Services, Inc. (Silver Spring, Maryland): GIS Analyst

19. 🇬🇧ESA (Harwell): Climate Applications Scientist

20. 🇬🇧Sylvera (London): Applied Scientist, Forest Lidar & 3D ML

21. 🇧🇪🇨🇷McKinsey (Brussels or San José): Data Scientist - Agriculture & Nature Analytics (Machine Learning/Geospatial)

22. 🇩🇪Marble Imaging (Bremen or Frankfurt): Multiple Positions

23. 🇳🇱ESA (Noordwijk): Earth Surfaces Active and Passive Microwave Scientist

24. 🇳🇱Dutch Aerospace Center (Amsterdam): R&D Engineer, Earth Observation

25. 🇦🇺ERM (Brisbane): Junior Remote Sensing Analyst

26. 🇮🇳ESRI (Noida): Imagery Specialist

27. 🇮🇳SwissRe (Bangalore): Geospatial Risk Specialist

28. 🇮🇳Verisk (Hyderabad): Senior Researcher Engineer - II

29. 🌎FAO (Various Locations): Multiple Positions

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NOAA: Oceanographic & Hydrodynamic Modelling

2. NASA - Climate Data Analysis Using GPS Radio Occultation

3. NY University: AI Driven Earth System Modelling

4. Rice U: Hydroclimate Variability & Extreme Sea Levels

5. ERI: Remove Sensing & Wildfires

6. Boston College: AI in Hydro/Biogeochemical Modelling

7. Brown U: Earth & Planetary Sciences

8. 🇨🇦EqualSeaLab: Several Climate-Related Positions

9. 🇨🇦CLIMB: Climate Impact Projects over Canada

10. 🇨🇦Agriculture in Canada: RS for Precision Agriculture

11. 🇨🇭ETHZ: ML Scientist for Weather & Climate

12. 🇫🇮 Oulu: Remote Sensing & Hydrological Modelling

13. 🇫🇮 Oulu: Several Positions in Water, Energy, & Environmental Modelling

14. 🇩🇪UFZ: LLMs and NLP to Support Climate Risk Decision

15. 🇩🇪BIFOLD: AI Agents for Earth Observation

16. 🇩🇪 AI-powered environmental intelligence

17. 🇸🇪SMHI: Climate Extremes Modelling

18. 🇬🇧 UCL: GIS & Public Health

19. 🇸🇬NUS: AI for Agricultural Digital Twins

20. 🇫🇮 Geospatial Data Analytics & Generative AI