Senior Geospatial Engineer

The role

You will grow SkyWatch's data products from 2D imagery into 3D, elevation, vessel tracking, and location-based vector data. You will lead 3D work, integrate third-party providers, and build geospatial applications for commercial, city, and defence customers.

What you will do

• Take over and grow 3D products.
• Wire products into how customers buy by connecting data to discovery, purchasing and publishing.
• Integrate third-party processing and data providers upstream and GIS platforms downstream.
• Add elevation, vessel tracking (AIS), and location-based vector data to the product line.
• Build geospatial applications that layer 3D with other data like AIS, road traffic, weather, and GNSS radio occultation.
• Package terrain for platforms that operate without a network or satellite positioning.
• Own quality through automated checks for accuracy, datums and QC.
• Work across the team on in-house image processing for other imagery sources.
• Use AI agents to write, test and run integration and pipeline code.

Required qualifications

• 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.
• Evidence of using AI tools to multiply your own engineering output.
• Public code or open-source contributions we can look at.

Nice to have

• Producing or publishing 3D and elevation products, such as surface and terrain models from stereo imagery, or I3S and 3D Tiles content in ArcGIS.
• Working knowledge of OGC standards: 3D Tiles, I3S, CityGML or CityJSON, GeoPackage, and OGC API Features and Tiles.
• Sensor fusion, and building for degraded and denied environments. Defence geospatial standards such as DTED, DGIWG and GeoPackage.
• Based in Canada, and willing to undergo Government of Canada security screening.

Benefits

• Stock options
• Health benefits
• Remote or hybrid work in Canada

Before you apply

• SkyWatch may use AI throughout various portions of the talent process.
• Willing to undergo Government of Canada security screening (preferred).

About the company

SkyWatch provides a seamless interface that aggregates data from numerous satellite sources to democratize access to space-based technology. Their platform empowers businesses, researchers, and governments to integrate satellite data into their operations.