Geospatial Jobs #72: Feb 4, 2025
Welcome to the 72nd issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climate-tech, 🌽ag-tech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
The paywall on issue #69 is removed and it’s now freely accessible.
For the past four months, I've consistently shared jobs every week. Initially, I wasn't sure if there will be enough positions to maintain that pace. Now, this issue curates over 60 positions, and I've even had to leave out some less compelling ones!
🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:
🇨🇭 Meteomatics raised $22M series C funding for their weather forecast products.
🇩🇪 Nala Earth raised €3.8M Seed funding for their nature risk monitoring solution.
Planet signed $230M commercial agreement for their Pelican satellites.
💡📚 Useful Resources:
I wrote an article elaborating on various technical roles (AI engineer, data scientist, backend engineer, etc.), their focus, and how to prepare for them:
A guide to geospatial tech roles and how to prepare for them
The geospatial industry is booming, offering diverse opportunities for professionals with technical expertise in data, software, and AI/ML. Whether you're interested in backend development, AI/ML, or data science, understanding different roles and how to prepare for them is essential. Navigating the landscape of geospatial tech roles can be tricky. This article breaks down key roles in the geospatial sector, their responsibilities, required skills, and how to land a job in each. We will delve deeper into the following roles:
The Cloud-Native Geospatial Forum (CNG) Conference 2025 is scheduled for April 30 – May 2, 2025, in Snowbird, Utah. Learn more
Data science challenges:
AI Weather Quest (organized by the ECMWF) is a global AI/ML competition for sub-seasonal prediction and is now open. Learn more
Wyvern Open Data Program: Simple access to hyperspectral data
Data Science / Engineering Positions:
Internships:
NASA's Earth Science Division: Satellite Needs Program
Skylight Team: Software Engineering Internship
Massachusetts Climate Team: Climate Adaptation and Resilience Intern
American Greetings (Westlake, OH): Sustainability & Compliance Intern
Rockefeller Foundation (New York): Multiple summer associates
Nature Conservancy and National Geographic: 2025 externship
National Geographic: 2025 summer internship
CIROH U Alabama: Operational hydrology
🇮🇳 CoRE stack: Software Engineer – Geospatial Technologies
Google:
X-Bellwether: Software Engineer
Amazon: Geospatial Engineer, Prime Air
NVIDIA: Solution Architect, Energy
McDonald’s: Manager, Global Restaurant Sustainability - Clean Energy & Climate
Abbvie: Senior Analyst, Environmental Sustainability Business Systems
Muon Space:
Chloris Geospatial (Boston): Data/ML Scientist
SkiFi: Mutiple positions
Spire: Senior AI Weather Scientist
The Weather Company (Andover, MA): Aviation Meteorologist
WeaveGrid (San Francisco): Driver Applications Senior Software Engineer
Skydio (San Mateo, CA): Senior Software Engineer - Full stack (Geospatial & Mapping)
Neural: Geospatial Full Stack Developer
Echo Labs: Hyperspectral Scientist
Spatial Informatics Group (SIG): Full-Stack Web Developer
onX (Missoula, MT): Senior Geospatial Analyst
HNTB (Tallahassee, FL): Data Scientist I
Clean Air Task Force: Research Associate, Methane Pollution Prevention
City of Boston: Climate Innovation Analyst
WWF (Bozeman, MT): Science And Data Specialist, Great Plains Program
SDGs Today (New York): GIS Developer and Analyst
🇬🇧 GHGSAT (London): Geospatial Data Engineer
🇬🇧 ESA: Climate Applications Scientist
🇬🇧 Office for National Statistics: Geospatial Technology Specialists
🇬🇧🇳🇱 EDF: Data Integration Methane Scientist
🇬🇧 Rewilding Affric Highlands: GIS and Data Officer
🇩🇪 IABG (Dresden): Technical Manager Disaster Risk Management
🇩🇪 thriveGEO: Geospatial Data Engineer
🇧🇪 EY (Diegem): Manager Energy and Climate
🇪🇸 Technosylva (Leon):
🇵🇹 COFCO International (Porto): Meteorologist and Data Analyst
🇵🇹 gmv (Lisbon): Geospatial Information and Remote Sensing Specialist
🇦🇺 NSW Reconstruction Authority: Senior Climate Risk Analyst
Postdoc / Research Positions:
NASA (Lanham, MD): Python Developer
Berkeley Lab: Postdoc - energy demand in industrial processes
Woodwell Climate Research Center: Satellite Image Interpretation Assistant
Stanford: Postdoc working with Ken Calderia at Doerr school of sustainability
U Miami: Data Scientist 3 - modernizing the analysis of echosounder data
U Florida: Scientist - Coastal Geotechnics
Princeton / NOAA GFDL: Postdoc - sea ice modeling and ML
U Virginia: Postdoc - ML, power system resilience, and transition to renewables
Arizona State U: Postdoc - ecology
Emory U: Postdoc - Remote Sensing and AI for Urban Malaria Control
Kansas State U: Research associate, Irrigation and extension
🇬🇧 Imperial College London: Research Associate - Whole Energy Systems Modelling
🇬🇧 U Exeter: Postdoc - Climate Intervention
🇬🇧 UCL: Research Fellow - map design/cartography and human geography
🇬🇧🇩🇪 ECMWF (Reading or Bonn):
Scientific Officer - High-impact weather forecast products
🇩🇪 Alfred Wegener Institute: Two scientists, High-Resolution Sea Ice Modeling
🇧🇪 Ghent U: Postdoc - Climate & Ecohydrology
🇧🇪 KU Leuven: Postdoc, Satellite data & land-atmosphere coupling
🇨🇿 Charles University: Postdoc - Quantitative Analyses and Spatial Statistics
🇳🇴 Center for International Climate Research (Oslo): Researcher on land surface model calibration
🇳🇴 U Oslo: Postdoc - Deep learning for sustainable subsurface data analysis
🇩🇰 DTU Management: Postdoc - environmental economics & sustainable finance
🇪🇸 Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Postdoc - health impact attribution
🇮🇳 IIT Roorkee: Object Detection using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
🇮🇳 IIT Hyderabad: Postdoc - Atmospheric, Earth, or Geospatial Science