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.

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🕵️💵 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:

1. U New Mexico: Soil carbon persistence in dryland floodplains

2. 🇩🇰 U Copenhagen: ML for ecosystem modeling & greenhouse gas fluxes

3. 🇩🇪 UFZ: AI for seasonal and sub-seasonal forecasting of flood events & atmospheric precursors

4. 🇪🇸 ICA-CSIC: Climate change impacts on urban agriculture crops

5. 🇳🇱 U Twente: Spatial integration for remote sensing of natural and built ecosystems

6. 🇬🇧 U Exeter: ML & earth observation for forest monitoring

7. 🇸🇬 NTU: 3 positions on urban microclimate modelling & physics-informed AI

8. 🇦🇺 QUT: AI, computer vision & robotics for marine ecosystem monitoring

9. 🇦🇺 U Melbourne: ML & ocean modelling for salinity reconstruction and Antarctic overturning circulation

10. 🇦🇺 Deakin U: 2 positions on irrigation water use & circular economy in almonds and cotton

11. 🇳🇿 U Auckland: Signal processing & remote sensing for atmospheric observation

Data Science / Engineering Positions:

1. Google (San Francisco, CA): Water Stewardship Lead, Global Sustainability

2. Amazon (Arlington, VA): Senior Solutions Architect, AWS Aerospace & Satellite

3. Planet: Multiple positions

4. Climavision: Meteorologist, Meteorology Solutions

5. Atmospheric G2 (Manchester, NH): Energy Decision Support Meteorologist — North America

6. Xcel Energy (Denver, CO): Senior Principal Risk Management Analyst

7. Southwest Power Pool (Little Rock, AR): Uncertainty Meteorologist

8. Travelers: Senior Manager, Enterprise Actuarial – Catastrophe Risk Management

9. SageSure (Marlton, NJ): Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst

10. Orion180 (Melbourne, FL): Director of Predictive Analytics - Insurance

11. Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety - IBHS (Richburg, SC): Research Engineer - Wildfire

12. Vayuh: Senior ML Engineer -- Natural Catastrophe Modeling

13. Woolpert

    1. Pittsburgh, PA: Senior Software Engineer

    2. 🇿🇦 Johannesburg: Geospatial Lidar Processor

14. MIT Lincoln Lab: Radar Meteorologist

15. UCSB: Associate specialist in climate and data services

16. DC Department of Human Resources: Citywide Weather Emergency Coordinator

17. NOAA NWS North Central River Forecast Center: Senior Hydrologist

18. Area Management (New York): Senior Associate, ESG Climate

19. Green Diamond: Forest Carbon Analyst

20. Dewberry: GIS Specialist – Senior

21. VHB: Senior GIS Analyst / Project Manager

22. Pape-Dawson (San Antonia, TX): GIS Analyst

23. 🇬🇧 SLR Consulting (Edinburgh): Principal Geospatial Consultant

24. 🇬🇧 Department of Transport: Senior Geospatial Analyst

25. 🇩🇪🇬🇧 ECMWF (Bonn, Reading): Research Software Engineer - Scientific Data Encoding and Decoding

26. 🇩🇪 Center for Earth System Observation and Computational Analysis: Data Software Engineer - Weather and Climate Data

27. 🇫🇮 Kuva Space: Pipeline Software Engineer

28. 🇫🇮 ICEYE (Espoo): Machine Learning Engineer

29. 🇳🇱 SRON (Leiden): Atmospheric Scientist

30. 🇳🇱 Sensar (Amersfoort): Geospatial Solutions Engineer

31. 🇨🇭 UTH Zurich: Head of Geospatial AI - Foundation Models and Geo-Intelligence Platform

32. 🇨🇭 LIVEMAP AG (Zurich): Data Engineer - Geospatial Domain

33. 🇮🇹 CMCC (Milan): Mid-level Impact Modeller – Climate Risks, Energy Systems and Socio-Economic Resilience

34. 🇪🇸 Mitiga Solutions (Barcelona): Climate Data Scientist

35. 🇸🇬 Verisk (Singapore): Senior Risk Consultant

36. 🇦🇺 NSW Government (Macquarie Park): Associate Geospatial Data Developer

37. 🇦🇺 Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (Sydney): Risk Specialist, Climate Risk

38. 🇦🇺 U Melbourne: Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network Data Scientist

39. 🇮🇳 Semantic (Pune): Sr. Remote Sensing Expert

Postdoc / Research Positions:

1. UC Riverside: Astrobiology & habitability of icy ocean worlds

2. JHU: Wildfire resilience & predictive modelling of building performance under fire

3. UCAR: Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship

4. National Lab of Rockies: Physics-based engineering modeling for drone swarm applications

5. U Arkansas: Ecohydrology of grazing pastures, eddy fluxes and water use efficiency

6. U Notre Dame: Ecology and quantitative environmental science

7. Virginia Tech: Satellite remote sensing and AI/ML for inland surface water hydrology

8. 🇨🇦 Canadian Centre for Climate Studies: Research Assistant, Climate Services

9. 🇨🇦 U Toronto: Blue carbon dynamics in coastal mudflat ecosystems

10. 🇬🇧 U Kent: Conservation outcomes of non-protected area management

11. 🇮🇪 Trinity College: AI-enabled digital twins for peatland monitoring and restoration

12. 🇨🇭 U Zurich: Arctic ecology & conservation for spatial biodiversity modelling

13. 🇪🇸 BSC: Climate predictions & services for the energy transition

14. 🇩🇪 U Marburg: Microbial carbon cycle, molecular mechanisms, and synthetic biology for CO2 conversion

15. 🇦🇹 ITU: Data-driven sustainability policy and economics

16. 🇳🇱 Wageningen Environmental Research: Land-use change & forest monitoring

17. 🇫🇷 INRAE/CIRAD: Geolocation & time-aware Earth observation representations for agriculture

18. 🇷🇴 U Bucharest: Global delta dynamics from satellite observations

19. 🇸🇪 Stockholm U: Stratospheric dynamics & turbulence in the atmosphere

20. 🇹🇷Bogaziçi U: Nature-based solutions for water management in the Mediterranean

21. 🇮🇳 IISC: 2 positions on water security & AI-based data assimilation for global water reanalysis

22. 🇨🇳CUHK-Shenzen:

    1. GeoAI & computational social science for urban spatial inequality

    2. GeoAI, climate-energy interactions, and urban sustainability