Geospatial Jobs #142: Jun 16, 2026

Welcome to the 142nd 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 #138 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:

• Earthian AI has raised pre-seed round to build specialized risk models.

• 🇫🇮 Iceye raised €1 billion to expand SAR satellite systems.

• Leaf Agriculture raised $13M Series B to build agents for agriculture.

• SkyFora has raised €6.5M to scale its atmospheric data platform.

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💡📚 Useful Resources:

• GeoAI Aquaculture Pond Identification Challenge

• Call for contributions now open for the Agentic AI for EO workshop in Berlin (Oct 19–21). Deadline: July 1.

• Climate Change AI 2026 Summer School registration now open. This virtual program explores AI applications for climate action and runs July 19 – Aug 22.

• Reseach and development (R&D) applications for the European Weather Cloud can be submitted until 30 June

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PhD positions:

1. U Virginia: 3 PhD positions on early warning, Socio-Environmental Systems, and risk

2. U Florida: RS of Hydrological Processes for Pathogens & Diseases

3. Oklahoma State U: Flood Modeling and Management

4. South Dakota State U: Developing Deep Learning Models using RS Data

5. 🇨🇦 U Saskatchewan: Flood Prediction in Ungauged Basins in a Changing Earth

6. 🇨🇦 NSERC: Application of Advanced Analytical Approaches Using Satellite Data

7. 🇬🇧UCL: AI & geospatial data

8. 🇩🇪 U Bonn: Multiple Postdocs in Sustainable Food Systems

9. 🇳🇱 U Utrecht: Complex Interactions between Human Behavior & Water Use

10. 🇳🇱 Delft: Systemic Risk in Climate-Sensitive Housing Market

11. 🇪🇺 ERC: Socio-Technical Modularity & Decentralization of Infrastructure

12. 🇳🇴 NTNU: AI-Powered Integrated Reservoir, Flow & Process Optimization

13. 🇨🇿 U Bern: Climate Extremes Affects on Healthcare Systems

14. 🇸🇪 Umea U: Marine Observation System Resilience

15. 🇦🇺 Charles Darwin U: Detecting & Quantifying Methane Emissions

16. 🇦🇺 U Melbourne: Impacts of Compound Climate Extremes on Agriculture

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Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Planette AI: NASA-funded Research Contractor, Transformers for S2S Weather Forecasting

2. Amazon (Seattle): Sr. Water Tech Program Manager, AWS Infrastructure Services

3. JPMorgan (New York): Catastrophe Modelling - Climate Nature & Social Risk Executive Director

4. Array Labs (San Francisco): Technical Product Manager, 3D Geospatial Products

5. Niantic Spatial (San Francisco or Sunnyvale):

   1. Sr. Product Specialist (3D Reconstruction)

   2. Senior Computer Vision Engineer (Localization)

6. [C]Worthy (Boulder, CO): 2 Postdoc Research Scientists

7. DPI Climate Hub (Chicago): Geospatial Statistician, Extreme Weather

8. CNN (New York): Product Manager II, New Business, Weather

9. NOAA (Lakeland, FL): 2 Meteorologist Positions

10. National Grid US New (Brooklyn, NY): Data Scientist, Data Science

11. Energy Impact Partners (Atlanta, GA): Associate, Energy Demand

12. Stride (Remote - VA): Senior Data Analyst

13. ESRI (Vienna, VA): Sr. GIS Solution Engineer

14. FEMA (Washington, D.C.): 2 Emergency Management Specialists (Geospatial)

15. NYC DEP (Manhattan, NY): Climate Science Advisor

16. State of South Carolina (West Columbia, SC): 2 GIS Analyst Positions

17. Department of Fish and Wildlife (Yolo County, CA):

    1. Remote Sensing Specialist

    2. GIS Specialist

18. State of Oregon (Salem, OR): 3 GIS Analyst Positions

19. 🇨🇦Xplore (Fredericton, NB): Senior GIS Data Engineer

20. 🇨🇦City of Toronto (North York, TO): Spatial Data Integrator

21. 🇨🇦NRC (Ottawa, ON): Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Specialist

22. 🇬🇧Oxford Economics (London): Spatial Data Scientist

23. 🇬🇧Met Office (Exeter): Sr. / Scientist Position

24. 🇩🇪Planet (Berlin): Working Student, Tasking

25. 🇳🇱🇩🇪ESA (Noordwijk or Cologne):

    1. Science Data and Archiving Lead

    2. Data science applications engineer

26. 🇳🇱NEO Earth Observation (Amersfoort): Geospatial Data Engineer

27. 🇧🇪VITO (Mol): Scientific Expert – Earth Observation Services

28. 🇦🇹AquaSky (Innsbruck): AI & Hydroinformatics Developer

29. 🇨🇭Ageas Re (Zurich): Senior Cat Pricer

30. 🇱🇺Space4environment: Expert in Geoinformatics, Data Science & Geodata

31. 🇮🇹ESA (Frascati): EO Applications Engineer

32. 🌍Climate KIC: Geospatial Data Architect, EO & Climate Services

33. 🇮🇳AXA (Remote): Cat Modeller

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Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. NOAA:

   1. Research Physical Scientist for Ocean Observations

   2. Physical Scientist for Operational Oceanographic Products & Services

2. Stanford: Co-locating Renewable Energy with Existing & Future Data Centers

3. U Virginia: 3 postdoc positions on flood risk, evacuation, and early warning

4. Pacific Institute: Water Efficiency, & Climate Equity

5. UGRC: GIS Data Analyst/Programmer

6. Lancent: Quantifying the Effects of Climate Change in Health Opportunities

7. National Trust: Urban Nature for Promotion of Health & Climate Resilience

8. 🇬🇧 NCAS: Atmospheric Remote Sensing Scientist

9. 🇬🇧 Cairngorms: Biodiversity & Land-use Change

10. 🇩🇪 TUM: ML & EO for Understanding Coastal Sea Level Rise

11. 🇩🇪 U Bayreuth: Field-based Hydrological Research under Environmental Change

12. 🇳🇱 Delft: Surface Water Salinity Intrusion in the Ganges Delta

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

14. 🇫🇷 Nates U: Seagrass Restoration Using Remote Sensing

15. 🇪🇺 ERC: Multiple Positions in Modeling Permafrost & Peatland Emissions

16. 🇮🇹 CMCC: Paleoclimate Modelling for Environment-Society Dynamics

17. 🇩🇰 Aarhus U: Large-Herbivore Ecology, Trophic Rewilding & Novel Ecosystems

18. 🇸🇪 SLU: Remote Sensing of Forests

19. 🇦🇺 UNSW: Climate Research and Applications to Agriculture

20. 🇨🇴 U Rosario: Carbon Cycle Impacts of Future Forest Fires

21. 🇿🇦 UESM: Water Quality Modelling

22. 🇦🇪 UAEU: Remote Sensing for Water Quality