Geospatial Jobs #133: Apr 14, 2026

5 years! 🎉

Welcome to the 133rd 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 #129 is removed and it’s now freely accessible. Shout out to Matt Hatami and Mahrukh Niazi who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.

🍻 It’s been 5 years! Thanks for reading, sharing, and supporting ❤️

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Capella was awarded $48.9M for advanced tactical space communications in low Earth orbit.

• 🇬🇧 Earth Blox raised £6m for their climate risk platform.

• Plume raised $3.9M to build AI agents for geospatial site intelligence of renewable energy.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Techstars Space Accelerator applications are open (deadline June 10), offering early-stage space startups mentorship, network, and traction.

• DWD STEP UP! Fellowship applications are open (deadline May 4), a 2-year program for early-career scientists working on AI and numerical weather prediction at ECMWF.

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PhD positions:

1. U Iowa: Precipitation Uncertainty Quantification

2. 🇳🇱 TU Delft: Modelling and Reliability Assessment of Metocean Loads

3. 🇫🇷 G-eau: Assessing Scenarios on Cultivated Floodplains

4. 🇫🇷CNRS: Contributions of Wetlands to Human and Ecological Habitability

5. 🇨🇿 Charles U: RS-based Indicators of Landscape Change with ML

6. 🇩🇪KIT: Deep Learning Probabilistic Predictions of Wildfire Risk

7. 🇩🇪TU Hamburg: Flood Forecasting with Machine Learning

8. 🇩🇰 GWC: Machine Learning for Environmental Sciences

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. LGND AI, Inc. (Remote): AI for Earth Summer 2026 Internship

   2. NASA STEM Internships (Multiple Cities): Multiple Positions

   3. 🇨🇦Mitacs Globalink (Montreal): Research Internship, Summer 2026

   4. 🇨🇭Swiss Re (Zurich): Climate Risk Intern

   5. 🇫🇮ICEYE (Espoo): AI Intern Program

2. Google:

   1. Multiple Positions with Energy & Power Team

   2. ML SWE Lead - Geospatial, Bellwether

3. NVIDIA (Washington DC): Energy and Infrastructure Sustainability Lead

4. ASW (Seattle): Sr. Sustainability Scientist

5. JP Morgan Chase (Delaware or Ohio): Risk Management - Climate Risk - VP

6. Citi (Wilmington, DE): Climate Risk Modeling Lead, Senior Vice President

7. BHSI: Catastrophe Analyst/Senior Catastrophe Analyst

8. World Bank (Washington DC): Short-Term Consultant, Agricultural EO/ML Expert

9. NASA (Huntsville, AL): EarthRISE, Data Science Associate

10. DTN (Bloomington, MN): Associate Weather Risk Analyst

11. CenterPoint Energy (Houston, TX): Lead Specialist, Meteorology

12. Funga (Austin, TX): Data Scientist

13. Zanskar (Salt Lake City, UT): Senior Computational Geophysicist

14. City of Austin (Grove Campus, TX): IT Application Analyst Senior (GIS)

15. 🇨🇦ApexRMS (Remote): Wildfire Specialist

16. 🇨🇦ERM (Vancouver, Smithers, or Calgary): Senior Associate / Consultant, Air Quality and Meteorology Scientist or Engineer

17. 🇬🇧Viridien (Crawley): Remote Sensing Specialist

18. 🇬🇧🇩🇪ECMWF (Reading or Bonn): Scientist for Stochastic Parametrisation and Differentiable Physical Processes

19. 🇩🇪AXA XL (Munich): Natural Hazards and Climate Change Risk Consultant

20. 🇩🇪Climate Analytics (Berlin): (Senior) Climate & Energy Data Scientist

21. 🇦🇹EODC (Vienna): Geospatial Software Engineer

22. 🇳🇱Uber (Amsterdam): Senior Product Manager, Uber Maps

23. 🇳🇱RaboResearch (Utrecht): Quantitative Analyst Climate

24. 🇮🇹ESA (Frascati): Marine and Coastal Applications Scientist

25. 🇮🇹FAO (Rome): Remote Sensing and GIS Specialist

26. 🇵🇱Bayer (Warsaw): Data Engineer, Remote Sensing

27. 🇪🇸🌎CARTO (Madrid or Remote): Software Engineer, AI Agents

28. 🌍UN Global Service Centre (Remote - EMEA region): GIS Administrator

29. 🇦🇺Queensland Government (Brisbane): Spatial Information Officer

30. 🇦🇺TERN Australia (Townsville): Project Data Officer / Senior Research Worker

31. 🇮🇳Ekam Analytics (New Delhi): Catastrophe Research Scientist

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. ASCEND: Soil Health Measurement

2. UMN: Implementing Graph-Based Data Infrastructure

3. Dartmouth: Flood Risks

4. SMHI: Global Climate Modelling and Extreme Events

5. UV Madison:

   1. Crop Yield Prediction at Regional & Field Scales

   2. Remote sensing and precision agriculture

6. U Florida: Land Use Dynamics and Agricultural Production Responses

7. SDSU: RS, Data fusion and Agrohydrology

8. U Arizona: Forest Management Impacts on Snow, Wildfire & Water Resources

9. 🇬🇧 VIEW: Effective Use of Local Data for Water Security

10. 🇬🇧 CLR: Land Management Solutions to Balance Food Production

11. 🇨🇭ETHZ: Extract Information from Climate Model Datasets

12. 🇨🇭Swiss Federal Institute: Digital Urban Planning

13. 🇨🇭ECCE: Climate Extremes

14. 🇩🇪Leipzig U: Integrating AI & Environmental Data to Support Research

15. 🇨🇿 TILSPEC: Thermal/Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Vegetation

16. 🇩🇰STILLINGER: Geospatial ML & Predicting Land Use Dynamics

17. 🇫🇮 LUKE: Guiding Restoration by Improivng Ecosystem Models

18. 🇫🇮 Helsinki: ML Methods to Produce High-Resolution Climate Datasets

19. 🇨🇾 ERATOSTHENES: Earth Observation and ML in Environmental Monitoring

20. 🇹🇭EarthVerde: Climate Change Mitigation in Rice System

21. Remote: Climate Adaptation & Resilience Specialist

22. 🇯🇵U Tokyo: Postdoc, global biodiversity index