Geospatial Software Engineer

Summary

Join Hydrosat, a venture-backed space data analytics company, as a Geospatial Software Engineer. You will contribute to the operations of Hydrosat’s earth observation constellation by building and optimizing software and services to process data from our novel earth observation system and deliver it to customers. This role involves developing scalable data processing pipelines, collaborating with engineers and experts, operationalizing image quality metrics, and ensuring data accuracy. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, particularly with Python, GDAL/OpenCV, and cloud computing. This position offers the opportunity to apply your skills to impactful applications in agriculture, climate, and public safety.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a software engineering role
• Expert knowledge of Python
• Expert knowledge of GDAL, OpenCV or other open source image processing libraries
• Experience with remote sensing, photogrammetry or GIS data processing at high scale
• Experience building production software systems for cloud computing deployments such as AWS, or Google Cloud
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Responsibilities

• Build scalable, automated data processing pipelines that produce scientific data products from raw sensor data collected by our satellites
• Optimize image processing pipelines to ensure efficient usage of computing resources
• Collaborate with Imaging System Engineers and CalVal experts to implement new functionality in image processing pipelines
• Operationalize image quality metrics to create internal and external facing metadata
• Assess imagery products to ensure they meet accuracy and quality standards
• Identify and troubleshoot pipeline and imagery anomalies, such as sensor artifacts, calibration issues, and geolocation discrepancies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with thermal data
• Experience working with STAC services
• Experience implementing image processing algorithms (i.e. geolocation, band to band alignment or sensor to sensor alignment)
• Experience working with raw/low level sensor data
• Experience with the NITF and NetCDF standards

Benefits

• Health insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
• Flexible time off
• Maternity, Paternity & Parental Leave
• 401K Matching