Geospatial Jobs #134: Apr 21, 2026

Welcome to the 134th 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 #130 is removed and it’s now freely accessible. Shout out to Mahrukh Niazi and Matt Hatami who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Development Seed won a $76M NASA contract for the Next Generation Scalable Data Engineering, Operations and Informatics Support for Open Science.

• PlanetiQ has been awarded $15M contract from US Air Force.

• Zanskar raised $40M in debt funding for their geothermal site development platform.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• NASA Space to Soil challenge applications are open (deadline May 4), offering $100K prize for SmallSat mission concepts supporting agriculture and land resilience.

• NASA’s FINESST applications are open (deadline July 14), offering funding for Master’s and PhD students pursuing Earth science research.

• E8 Angels Decarbon8 Fund applications open May 1, offering funding for startups building climate resilience solutions across grid, water, and food systems.

• Tanager Open Data Competition is open (deadline August 31), inviting projects using hyperspectral satellite data for climate, biodiversity, and environmental insights.

• CTrees released 26 years of aboveground biomass data at 100-meter resolution.

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PhD positions:

1. 🇺🇸 Lehigh U: Catastrophe Modelling & Environmental Impact Mitigation

2. 🇺🇸 UCF: Multivariate Extremes & Hydroclimatic Risk Assessment

3. 🇺🇸 Penn State U: Water Governance, Infrastructure & Risk

4. 🇩🇪Leipzig U: Precipitation formation

5. 🇳🇱 Wageningen U: Casual Inference for Earth Observation

6. 🇳🇱 IVM Institute: Analyzing Nature Restoration in Europe

7. 🇫🇷 U Montpellier: Numerical Modelling of Saltwater Intrusions

8. 🇸🇪 Lund U: Coastal processing & Climate Change Adaptation

9. 🇮🇹 U Venezia: Climate Change Impact Modelling on Coastal Systems

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. 🌎Earth Genome (Remote): Multiple Summer Internships

2. 🇮🇳Suhora (Noida): Multiple Positions

3. Willis Re (New York): Senior Catastrophe Analyst

4. First Street (New York):

   1. Senior Data Scientist

   2. Senior Data Engineer

5. Gridmatic (California): Multiple Software Engineer Positions

6. Knowmadics (Wichita, KS): MLOps Engineer

7. UL Research Institutes (Maryland or Remote): Research Scientist III, Fire Safety Research Institute

8. Earthshot (Remote - USA): NbS Geospatial Specialist

9. SkyFi (Remote - primarily USA): Multiple Engineer Positions

10. Development Seed: Technical Project Lead

11. PG&E: Geospatial Data Scientist, Expert

12. ESRI:

    1. (Philadelphia, PA): GIS Solution Engineer, Water

    2. 🇮🇳(New Delhi): Product Engineer, Geospatial Data Science

13. 🇨🇦Definity (Montreal or Toronto): Analyst, Climate and Catastrophe Risk

14. 🇬🇧AIG (London): Director, Head of Catastrophe Research & Validation

15. 🇬🇧🇩🇪ECMWF (Reading or Bonn): Team Leader, Subseasonal Prediction Team

16. 🇩🇪LiveEO (Berlin): (Senior) Geospatial Data Engineer

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

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

19. 🇦🇹GeoVille (Austria - Remote): Earth Observation Data Analyst/Scientist

20. 🇳🇱Ocean Cleanup (Rotterdam): Coastal Ocean Modeler

21. 🇧🇪VITO (Mol): Project Lead: Earth Observation Platforms

22. 🇮🇹JRC (Ispra): Geospatial AI Expert

23. 🇦🇺ASII (Adelaide): Geospatial Systems Architect / Geospatial Data Engineer

24. 🇦🇺Woolpert (Perth): Consultant, Advisory Geospatial

25. 🌎Global Energy Monitor (Remote - USA preferred): Two Researchers

26. 🌎NatureX Studio (Remote - USA time zone): Backend + Geospatial Engineer

27. 🌎Atlas AI (Remote - USA/EU): Senior ML Engineer, Demographics / SES Modeler

28. 🌎WMO (Multiple Locations): Multiple Positions

29. 🌎Commodity Weather Group (Remote): Meteorological Software Engineer

30. 🌎International Seabed Authority (Remote): Geospatial and Data Management Consultant

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. MIT:

   1. Satellite Remote Sensing of Atmosphere & Ocean Composition

   2. Next Generation, Uncertainty Aware Weather Forecasting

2. U New Mexico: Ecosystem Modelling & Spatial Data Analysis

3. 🇳🇱 Koninklijk: Improving Extreme Rainfall & Flood Prediction

4. 🇪🇺UNU: Citizen Science, Sustainability Assesment, & Resource Nexus

5. 🇩🇪 DLR: SAR Interferometry & Tomography

6. 🇩🇪 GFZ: Big Data for Flood Modelling

7. 🇨🇭 ETHZ: Weather and climate extremes

8. 🇳🇱 Amsterdam U: Remote Sensing & Lightning Fire Occurences

9. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh U: Early Warning Systems

10. 🇬🇧 UCL: Early Warning of North Atlantic Climate Tipping Point

11. 🇬🇧 Imperial: Climate dynamics, solar radiation management