skywatch - Senior Geospatial Engineer
Requirements
• An integrator. You reach for the best existing capability before building your own, and you are good at making other people’s systems work together. • Use-case minded. You know how a city planner, a GIS analyst or a defence operator uses 3D, elevation and vector data, and you shape the product around that. • Broad. You are happy across 3D, imagery, vector and platform work, and you go where the impact is. • An application builder. You don’t stop at the data file. You build the app a planner or analyst actually opens, with the right layers on top. • AI-native. You have rebuilt how you work around AI tools, and you can show the output it multiplied. • 6+ years as a software engineer, including 3+ years on geospatial data, platforms or applications. • Cloud-native geospatial, in production: cloud-optimized formats (COG, GeoParquet, Zarr), STAC, GDAL and rasterio or similar, containers, object storage and batch or distributed compute. • Built integrations with third-party data and processing services, and delivered data into the platforms customers use. • A working understanding of 3D, elevation and vector data and how customers use them, including coordinate systems and vertical datums. • Built geospatial applications on 3D data, such as web 3D apps in CesiumJS, the ArcGIS Maps SDK for JavaScript or deck.gl http://deck.gl. • Evidence of using AI tools to multiply your own engineering output. • Public code or open-source contributions we can look at. Strongly preferred • Producing or publishing 3D and elevation products, such as surface and terrain models from stereo imagery, or I3S and 3D Tiles content in ArcGIS. Strongly preferred • Working knowledge of OGC standards: 3D Tiles, I3S, CityGML or CityJSON, GeoPackage, and OGC API Features and Tiles. Preferred • Sensor fusion, and building for degraded and denied environments. Defence geospatial standards such as DTED, DGIWG and GeoPackage. Preferred • Based in Canada, and willing to undergo Government of Canada security screening. Preferred
Responsibilities
• Take over and grow 3D. Pick up the 3D products we already produce, run them reliably, and lead what comes next. • Wire products into how customers buy. Connect our data products to discovery, purchasing and publishing, so a customer can find, order and receive them without help. Integrate third-party processing and data providers upstream, and GIS platforms and marketplaces downstream. • Add the next data types. Bring elevation, vessel tracking (AIS), and location-based vector data into the product line, choosing partners and sources on fit, quality and cost. • Build applications that show the value. Build geospatial applications that put these products to work, layering 3D with other data: AIS, road traffic, weather, GNSS radio occultation and more. Think of what a city would want over its 3D digital twin to manage and plan. • Package terrain for platforms that can’t phone home. Deliver elevation products to defence and industry standards for drones, vessels and autonomous systems that operate without a network or satellite positioning. • Own quality. Accuracy, datums and QC, checked automatically and documented against the specs our customers accept. • Work across the team. Lend a hand on our in-house image processing for other imagery sources when that is where the work is. • Build with AI. Use AI agents to write, test and run integration and pipeline code, and put automated checks on the output.
Benefits
• Base salary plus stock options. Health benefits, and remote or hybrid work in Canada. Base salary: CA$135,000 to CA$165,000, depending on experience. This is an existing vacancy. • Ground floor. The first dedicated hire for a product line we expect to grow fast, with a direct line to the people who set the roadmap. • Hard problems. 3D cities with live data running across them, and terrain accurate enough for a machine to navigate by. • The frontier. Satellite, aerial and drone data and an AI-native product line, at a company small enough that your decisions show up in production next week. • Accessibility at SkyWatch
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