Job Opportunities
Department of Geographical Sciences Jobs
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Job Roundup
7/14/26-8/5/26
Assistant Professor in Climate Research and Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Deadline: Aug. 31.
Assistant Professor in Impacts of Global Environmental Change, University of California, Berkeley. Deadline: Oct. 2.
Assistant Professor in Climate Science, Stanford University, California. Deadline: Nov. 1.
6/4/26-7/13/2026
GIS Technician, American Fork City, Utah. Apply now.
Research Associate or Scientist in Agricultural Economics and Remote Sensing, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a priority deadline of July 30.
5/9/26-6/3/2026
Senior GIS Solutions Engineer, Tepa Companies, Remote. Apply now.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Deadline: July 6.
4/15/26-5/8/26
Postdoc in Long-Wavelength Radar for Forest Disturbance Monitoring, Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Deadline: June 12.
Geospatial Information Librarian at University of California, Riverside. Apply by June 1.
Cartographer at NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland. Apply by May 5.
3/16/26-4/15/26
Senior Data Scientist, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. Apply by April 28.
Postdoctoral Associate in Advanced Sensemaking, Rice University, Houston , Texas. Apply now.
3/1/26-3/15/26
Postdoc in Satellite Remote Sensing and Land-Use Modeling of Grassland Management, Aarhus University, Denmark. Deadline: April 10.
Director of Research and Development, Center for Geospatial Information Technology, Virginia Tech., Arlington, VA. Deadline: March 17.
GIS Analyst, Department of Transportation, Baltimore, MD. Deadline: March 14.
Postdoctoral Associate, Community-Centered Physical AI for Smart Urban Management, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. Application review begins March 25.
Postdoctoral Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Peking University, China. Deadline: April 10.
2/14/26-2/28/26
Assistant Professor in Forest Systems, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA. Application review begins March 30.
Data Scientist II – AI for RF/Remote Sensing, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Seattle or Richland, WA. Deadline: Feb. 27.
Chief Data Scientist V – GEOINT Domain, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. Deadline: March 6.
Senior Data Scientist IV – GEOINT, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. Deadline: March 6.
Data Scientist III – GEOINT, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA. Deadline March 6.
1/27/26-2/13/26
Western Virginia Recovery Program Manager, The Nature Conservancy, Lexington, Virginia. Apply now.
GIS Analyst, Santa Barbara County, CA. Deadline: Feb. 5.
1/5/26-1/26/26
GIS Specialist, Center for Biological Diversity, Tucson, Arizona (Hybrid). Apply now.
Enterprise Geospatial Intern, World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC. Apply now.
GIS Technician, HACU National Internship Program, Beltsville, MD. Apply now.
GIS Analyst, Masego, Fully Remote. Apply now.
12/1/25-12/31/25
Paid Summer Graduate Mentor Position - NASA SARP, East and West Coast. Deadline: Feb. 8, 2026
GIS Analyst, CivilGrid, Kansas City (Hybrid). Apply now.
GIS Developer, CivilGrid, Kansas City (Hybrid). Apply now.
11/8/25-11/30/25
Postdoctoral Scholar, Remote Sensing to FATES: Wildfire Impacts on Western U.S. Forests, Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine. Best consideration date: Nov. 25. Final application date: Jan 31, 2026.
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida-Gainesville. Reviewing starts Dec. 1. until position is filled.
Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria. Deadlne: Jan. 12, 2026
9/26/25-11/7/2025
Geospatial Data Scientist 2026 Summer Internship (Ph.D. students), Balyasny Asset Management (BAM), New York. Apply now.
GIS Solutions Engineer, Tepa Companies, Alexandria, Virginia. Apply now.
Geospatial Data Scientist 2026 Summer Internship (PhD), Balyasny, New York. Apply now.
Senior GIS Developer, Amtrak, Remote. Apply now.
8/9/25-9/25/25
Geospatial Climate Scientist, Stand, San Francisco-CA. Apply now.
Full Professor (Tenured) in Environment and Society, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Deadline: Nov. 3.
Research Scientist, Foresighting Resilient Adaptation and Land Use Change, Centre for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg, Germany. Deadline: Sept. 30.
8/23/25-8/9/25
Assistant Professor In Spatial Modelling For Climate Smart Food Systems, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands. Deadline: Sept.14.
8/9/25-8/22/25
GIS Program Manager, Sonoma Land Trust, Santa Rosa, California (Hybrid). Deadline: Sept. 12
GIS Specialist, Clean Water Services, Hillsboro, Oregon. Deadline: Sept. 2.
Internship, United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), Hybrid (one day a week in Herndon, VA or St. Louis, MO). Deadline: Aug. 31.
7/19/25-8/8/25
GIS Analyst, Veolia, Harrisburg, PA. Apply now.
Tenure-Track Professoriate Positions, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong. Review of applications begins Oct. 1.
7/4/25-7/18/25
Data Scientist (GIS Support), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Deadline: Aug. 1.
Post-Doc Fellowships, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austrian Universities. Deadline: Sept. 15
GIS Individual Placement, Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, Appalachia and neighboring communities in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, DC, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Deadline: July 31.
6/21/25-7/4/25
Water Quality Remote Sensing Lead, Fish Welfare Initiative, Remote. Deadline: June 29.
ArcGIS Data Fellow, Country First Academy, Remote. Deadline: June 30.
6/1/25-6/20/25
GIS Consultant, Technology Digest, Inc. (TDI), Part-Time, Remote. Apply now.
Early-Career Researchers, Hiroshima University, Three- and Two-Year Contracts. Apply now.
4/20/25-5/2/25
3/23/25-4/19/25
Geographic Information System Intern, Howard County Public Schools. Deadline: April 21.
3/2/25-3/22/25
GIS Summer Internship, District Department of Transportation (DDOT), Washington-DC. Apply now.
Internship, Conservation GIS Lab at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI), Front Royal, VA. Apply now.
2/23/25-3/1/25
2/16/25-2/22/25
Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Review of applications begin March 3.
GIS Developer, Tepa Companies, Washington, DC/remote. Apply now.
GIS Developer, Tepa Companies, Greater Ashburn, Virginia/hybrid. Apply now.
2/2/25-2/7/25
Multiple positions at Geospatial Consulting Group International (geocgi), various locations. Apply now.
1/26/25-2/1/25
Postdoc Fellowships, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. Apply now.
1/17/25-1/25/25
Geospatial Data Analyst, Remote Sensing, Floodbase, Brooklyn, NY or remote. Deadline: April 30.
1/11/25-1/16/25
Two positions: Geospatial Developer and Geospatial Operations Manager, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Apply now.
1/6/25-1/10/25
Cartographers, NOAA, Silver Spring, Maryland. Apply by Jan. 16.
Geographic Information System Analyst III (Planning and Development), City of Dallas, Texas. Deadline: Jan. 17.