Geospatial Jobs #140: Jun 2, 2026

Welcome to the 140th 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.

---

🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:

• Satellogic has secured an $18M contract with an international defense customer.

---

💡📚 Useful Resources:

• NASA EarthRISE Fall 2026 applications now open (deadline June 26), offering applied Earth science projects, and professional development.

• ESA Φ-lab and BIFOLD’s “Agentic AI for Earth Observation” workshop comes to Berlin (Oct 19–21), exploring autonomous AI for geospatial data.

• GeoHackathon 2026 applications now open for Southeast Asia teams using geospatial data to tackle food security, floods, and environmental challenges.

---

PhD positions:

1. Utah State U: Hydrologic Modelling & Machine Learning

2. U Virginia: Physics-Informed AI, Flood Modelling, Forecasting & Control

3. U Iowa: 2 PhDs on Trustworthy GeoAI & Multi-Agent GeoAI Modeling

4. 🇮🇹 U Bolzano: Evapotranspiration Estimation in Alpines Through EO

5. 🇨🇭ETH Zurich: Landscape Ecology & Geospatial Analysis

6. 🇳🇱 TU Delft: Scientific ML, Scientific Foundation Models

---

Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. JP Morgan (New York):

   1. Climate & Environmental Risk Analyst

   2. Catastrophe Modelling, Climate Nature & Social Risk Executive Director

2. Sagesure (New Jersey or Chicago): Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst

3. MSIG USA (Warren, NJ): Catastrophe Modeling Specialist

4. Wherobots (Seattle): Senior ML Engineer, GeoAI Platform

5. Gridmatic (Cupertino, California): Data Engineer

6. Zipline (San Francisco): Head of Weather Systems

7. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Pearl Harbor, Hawaii): Imagery Analyst

8. California Public Utilities Commission (San Francisco): Climate Adaptation Risk Mitigation

9. Port of San Diego (San Diego): Climate and Sustainability Analyst I

10. Woolpert (Remote - USA): Senior GIS Consultant

11. 🇨🇦CBRE (Vancouver): Senior GIS Analyst

12. 🇨🇦JLL (Vancouver): Staff Software Developer

13. 🇨🇦WSP: Senior / Advisor, Climate Risk and Resilience (Two Positions)

14. 🇨🇦Atreides (Remote): Geospatial & Visualization Engineer

15. 🇬🇧Penguin Recruitment (Bristol): Flood Modeller

16. 🇬🇧Treefera (London): ML Scientist (Remote Sensing)

17. 🇬🇧Natural England: Higher Data Scientist, Earth Observation Analyst

18. 🇬🇧Zora Ecosystems (London): Water Scientist – Nature Based Solution

19. 🇩🇪LiveEO (Berlin): Multiple Positions

20. 🇮🇹ESA Φ-Lab (Frascati): Multiple PostDoc Positions

21. 🇮🇹Pi School (Rome): Earth Observation AI Engineer

22. 🇮🇹KatRisk (Pavia): Earthquake Risk Modeler, Secondary Hazards and Risk

23. 🇵🇱TerraEye (Wrocław): Multiple Positions

24. 🇨🇿AON (Prague):

    1. Hydrological Modelling and GIS Analyst

    2. Catastrophe Analyst

25. 🇫🇮🌎Kuva Space (Espoo or Remote): Data Scientist

26. 🇳🇿eCoast Consulting and Research (Waikato): Coastal Scientist / Numerical Modeller

27. 🇮🇳AON (Bengaluru): Client Solutions Senior Consultant, Impact Forecasting

28. 🇰🇷Green Climate Fund (Incheon): Climate Impact Specialist

29. 🇬🇭FAO (Accra): National Land Cover and GIS Specialist

---

Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NASA:

   1. Data System Engineer/ Architect

   2. Dynamic Program Manager for Earth Science Division

2. Berkeley Lab: Scientific Software Engineer - AI/ML for Hyperspectral Imaging

3. GWSC: Cartographer Data Scientist I

4. Harvard: Capacity and Community Building

5. ASU: Research Administration Specialist

6. UMass: Weather Hazards, Testbed Development & Research

7. UT Austin: Human-Centered GeoAI & Geospatial Data Scientist

8. Washington U: Neural Fields & Earth Observation Research

9. U Colorado: Applications of RS Algorithms for Cryosphere

10. Oklahoma State U: Synthesizing Eddy Flux Data

11. 🇬🇧U Oxford: Satellite Retrievals of Volcanic & Hydrometeor Clouds

12. 🇬🇧ICL: AI-Enabled Hydrological Modelling & Data Assimilation

13. 🇩🇪 U Hamburg: Cloud Turbulance Interactions & Climate Impacts

14. 🇩🇪 GFZ Helmholtz: HydroPredict Postdoctoral Researcher

15. 🇩🇪TUM: Limits of Current AI Models in Geospatial Context

16. 🇩🇪Max Planck: Numerical Simulations & Data Analysis for Moist Convection

17. 🇧🇪UCLouvain: Modeling and attribution of precipitation extremes

18. 🇨🇭MRI: Scientific Research Coordinator & Project Officer

19. 🇳🇱Wageningen: Above-Below Ground Interactions in Grasslands

20. 🇱🇺IIASA: How Climate Change Reshapes Our Relationship with Home

21. 🇫🇷 Reunion: Numerical Prediction Model for Extreme Rainfall

22. 🇸🇪SLU: Forest Landscape Modelling

23. 🇸🇪Uppsala U: Exposure to & Impacts of Climate Extremes

24. 🇫🇮Luke: Agricultural Climate Intelligence

25. 🇦🇺 U Melbourne: Water Resources Modelling & Climate Change

26. 🇿🇦 Pacific Institute: Nature-Based Solutions

27. 🇸🇬NU Singapore: Hybrid Physics-AI Methods for Weather Applications