Geospatial Jobs #148: Jul 28, 2026
Welcome to the 148th 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 Manjaree Binjolkar and Apoorva Shastry who voluntarily helped with formatting this issue.
🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:
Nothing relevant this week.
💡📚 Useful Resources:
SatCamp, the cool geospatial conference that’s not just about presentations, will be held in Boulder, CO on September 23-24. Check it out and get your tickets if that sounds interesting.
PhD positions:
U New Mexico: Soil carbon persistence in dryland floodplains
🇩🇰 U Copenhagen: ML for ecosystem modeling & greenhouse gas fluxes
🇩🇪 UFZ: AI for seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasting of flood events & atmospheric precursors
🇪🇸 ICA-CSIC: Climate change impacts on urban agriculture crops
🇳🇱 U Twente: Spatial integration for remote sensing of natural and built ecosystems
🇬🇧 U Exeter: ML & earth observation for forest monitoring
🇸🇬 NTU: 3 positions on urban microclimate modelling & physics-informed AI
🇦🇺 QUT: AI, computer vision & robotics for marine ecosystem monitoring
🇦🇺 U Melbourne: ML & ocean modelling for salinity reconstruction and Antarctic overturning circulation
🇦🇺 Deakin U: 2 positions on irrigation water use & circular economy in almonds and cotton
🇳🇿 U Auckland: Signal processing & remote sensing for atmospheric observation
Data Science / Engineering Positions:
Google (San Francisco, CA): Water Stewardship Lead, Global Sustainability
Amazon (Arlington, VA): Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Aerospace & Satellite
Planet: Multiple positions
Climavision: Meteorologist, Meteorology Solutions
Atmospheric G2 (Manchester, NH): Energy Decision Support Meteorologist — North America
Xcel Energy (Denver, CO): Senior Principal Risk Management Analyst
Southwest Power Pool (Little Rock, AR): Uncertainty Meteorologist
Travelers: Senior Manager, Enterprise Actuarial – Catastrophe Risk Management
SageSure (Marlton, NJ): Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst
Orion180 (Melbourne, FL): Director of Predictive Analytics - Insurance
Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety - IBHS (Richburg, SC): Research Engineer - Wildfire
Woolpert
Pittsburgh, PA: Senior Software Engineer
🇿🇦 Johannesburg: Geospatial Lidar Processor
MIT Lincoln Lab: Radar Meteorologist
DC Department of Human Resources: Citywide Weather Emergency Coordinator
NOAA NWS North Central River Forecast Center: Senior Hydrologist
Area Management (New York): Senior Associate, ESG Climate
Green Diamond: Forest Carbon Analyst
Dewberry: GIS Specialist – Senior
Pape-Dawson (San Antonia, TX): GIS Analyst
🇬🇧 SLR Consulting (Edinburgh): Principal Geospatial Consultant
🇬🇧 Department of Transport: Senior Geospatial Analyst
🇩🇪🇬🇧 ECMWF (Bonn, Reading): Research Software Engineer - Scientific Data Encoding and Decoding
🇩🇪 Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis: Data Software Engineer - Weather and Climate Data
🇫🇮 Kuva Space: Pipeline Software Engineer
🇫🇮 ICEYE (Espoo): Machine Learning Engineer
🇳🇱 SRON (Leiden): Atmospheric Scientist
🇳🇱 Sensar (Amersfoort): Geospatial Solutions Engineer
🇨🇭 UTH Zurich: Head of Geospatial AI - Foundation Models and Geo-Intelligence Platform
🇨🇭 LIVEMAP AG (Zurich): Data Engineer - Geospatial Domain
🇮🇹 CMCC (Milan): Mid-level Impact Modeller – Climate Risks, Energy Systems and Socio-Economic Resilience
🇪🇸 Mitiga Solutions (Barcelona): Climate Data Scientist
🇸🇬 Verisk (Singapore): Senior Risk Consultant
🇦🇺 NSW Government (Macquarie Park): Associate Geospatial Data Developer
🇦🇺 Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (Sydney): Risk Specialist, Climate Risk
🇦🇺 U Melbourne: Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network Data Scientist
🇮🇳 Semantic (Pune): Sr. Remote Sensing Expert
Postdoc / Research Positions:
UC Riverside: Astrobiology & habitability of icy ocean worlds
JHU: Wildfire resilience & predictive modelling of building performance under fire
National Lab of Rockies: Physics-based engineering modeling for drone swarm applications
U Arkansas: Ecohydrology of grazing pastures, eddy fluxes and water use efficiency
U Notre Dame: Ecology and quantitative environmental science
Virginia Tech: Satellite remote sensing and AI/ML for inland surface water hydrology
🇨🇦 Canadian Centre for Climate Studies: Research Assistant, Climate Services
🇨🇦 U Toronto: Blue carbon dynamics in coastal mudflat ecosystems
🇬🇧 U Kent: Conservation outcomes of non-protected area management
🇮🇪 Trinity College: AI-enabled digital twins for peatland monitoring and restoration
🇨🇭 U Zurich: Arctic ecology & conservation for spatial biodiversity modelling
🇪🇸 BSC: Climate predictions & services for the energy transition
🇩🇪 U Marburg: Microbial carbon cycle, molecular mechanisms, and synthetic biology for CO2 conversion
🇳🇱 Wageningen Environmental Research: Land-use change & forest monitoring
🇫🇷 INRAE/CIRAD: Geolocation & time-aware Earth observation representations for agriculture
🇷🇴 U Bucharest: Global delta dynamics from satellite observations
🇸🇪 Stockholm U: Stratospheric dynamics & turbulence in the atmosphere
🇹🇷Bogaziçi U: Nature-based solutions for water management in the Mediterranean
🇮🇳 IISC: 2 positions on water security & AI-based data assimilation for global water reanalysis
🇨🇳CUHK-Shenzen: