Fugro

Fugro uses geo-data to understand what's below the surface and above — mapping, modelling, and monitoring Earth to make infrastructure safer and more sustainable. They've been doing this since 1962, working across renewable energy, coastal protection, and infrastructure projects globally. Think drilling, surveying, ocean monitoring, environmental assessments — they turn raw earth data into insights that let engineers build smarter.

For AI and data professionals, Fugro matters because they're sitting on massive volumes of spatial and subsurface data. They're moving toward "Geo-data as a service" — subscription models powered by their proprietary datasets and analytics. This means opportunities to build ML systems around sensor networks, automated surveying equipment, and predictive models for environmental risk. Their Remote Operations Centers and autonomous equipment (like their WaveWalker buoys and CPT crawlers) generate continuous streams of data begging for ML pipelines.

They have 11,219 people across 52 countries, so they're large enough to do serious work while still investing heavily in innovation.

Their strategic priorities include expanding into coastal resilience and carbon capture — both of which are data-intensive. If you're in Malaysia or Singapore, they likely have operations there given their global footprint, and they're hiring engineers who understand both physical sensors and data systems.