Geospatial Jobs #136: May 5, 2026

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Welcome to the 136th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climate-tech, 🌽ag-tech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).

Special thanks to Mahrukh Niazi and Matt Hatami who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.

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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Satellogic announced a $12M agreement with a sovereign defense customer.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• Y Combinator announced a request for startups on AI for Low-Pesticide Agriculture.

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PhD positions:

1. 🇳🇱Wageningen U:

   1. Compounding Effects of Climate Extremes

   2. AI Models for Biodiversity Monitoring

2. 🇩🇰Aalborg U: Semantic GNSS Reflectometry for Real-Time Earth

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Internships:

   1. XyloPlan (Remote): Wildfire Mitigation Planning Intern

2. Amazon (Seattle):

   1. Applied Scientist II, Sustainability Science and Innovation

   2. Director of Science, Geospatial

3. Google (Seattle): Software Engineer, Infrastructure, Geo Earth Engine

4. Verisk (Boston): ML Scientist, Atmospheric Science

5. AON (Boston): Wildfire Scientist, Impact Forecasting

6. 🇺🇸🇨🇭SwissRe (Armonk, New York or Zurich): Senior Natural Catastrophe Specialist, Vulnerability

7. Gen Re (Stamford, CT): CAT Risk Advisor

8. Rhizome (Remote - San Francisco): Technical Implementation Manager

9. Ramboll: Lead Consultant, Environmental Data Management

10. Arizona Public Service (Phoenix): Meteorologist, Predictive Services & Fire Science Modeling

11. City of Tumwater (Washington): Seasonal GIS Technician

12. California State University (Northridge, CA): GIS Project Manager

13. 🇨🇦City of Ottawa: Geospatial Strategist

14. 🇨🇦City of Hamilton (Hamilton, Ontario): Geomatics-GIS Support Technician

15. 🇬🇧Willis Re (London): Catastrophe Modelling Developer

16. 🇬🇧Outbreak Labs (London): Senior ML Scientist, Geospatial & Remote Sensing

17. 🇬🇧Beazley (London): Climate Risk Specialist

18. 🇬🇧Idox (Remote): Data Engineer, Geospatial

19. 🇮🇪Jacobs (Dublin): Senior GIS Analyst

20. 🇫🇮ICEYE (Espoo): Senior Geospatial Analytics Engineer

21. 🇧🇪 VITO (Mol): Remote Sensing Scientist

22. 🇱🇺Airmo: GIS Analyst

23. 🇩🇰UN (Copenhagen): Chief Climate Officer

24. 🇳🇴Mitigrate (Oslo): Catastrophe Vulnerability Modeller

25. 🇦🇺AECOM (Sydney): GIS Analyst

26. 🇦🇺 Woolpert (Melbourne): Graduate Geospatial Consultant

27. 🇦🇪Gistec (UAE): Technical Support Analysts

28. 🇰🇪 The Pangolin Project (Narok County): GIS Mapping and Spatial Analyst

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. Argonne: Convective Storms & Severe Weather

2. PNNL (College Park, MD): Post Masters RA, Human-Earth Systems & Science

3. NOAA (Norman, OK): Research Physical Scientist, weather extremes

4. UMBC: Evaluating Aerosol Forecasts in NASA’s GEOS Model

5. CMICH: Enhancing Stormwater Infrastructure & Flood Resilience

6. U Alabama: Water, Soil & Sediment Dynamics

7. ASU: Geospatial Artificial Intelligence

8. 🇨🇦Trent U: Agrosystem Functioning in Urban Agriculture

9. 🇫🇷 U Bretagne: AI for Earth Observation

10. 🇫🇷U Cote dÁzur: Identifying & Mapping Seismogenic Faults

11. 🇩🇪Helmholtz: Hydrology & AI/Modelling

12. 🇩🇪U Bayreuth: Extreme Events, Variability in Water Availability

13. 🇩🇪Max Planck Institute for Meteorology: Climate dynamics

14. 🇳🇱Wageningen U: Self-Supervised Learning for Image-Based Phenotyping

15. 🇵🇹Okeanos: Microplastics Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Emission

16. 🇬🇧CCRI: Land Use for Net Zero

17. 🇬🇧Oxford: Living with Drought with Focus on Germany/Spain

18. 🇳🇴Oslo Metropolitan U: Climate Governance & Experimental Social Science

19. 🇦🇺Monash: Real-Time Energy-Aware Navigation System