Data Scientist
About the Company
DigitalGlobe is the world’s leading provider of high-resolution Earth imagery, data and analysis. With the most sophisticated commercial satellite constellation in orbit, we create the world’s smartest images, to give customers confidence when making critical decisions. Unmatched imagery quality, global coverage, and actionable analytics make us a trusted partner worldwide. The Geospatial Big Data Platform (GBDX) team is working to take our entire 16-plus year archive of satellite imagery and put it in the cloud for real-time and scalable discovery, access and compute. Hundreds of developers are building new applications and machine learning algorithms on GBDX and in our recently expanded Services business. This new ecosystem is where data science meets computer vision, image mining and geospatial analysis in order to answer questions at a global scale.
About the team
The Data Science Applications team designs and implements image processing, feature extraction and machine learning algorithms on GBDX, in order to address customer use cases and to push the boundaries of what is achievable on GBDX. With petabytes of satellite imagery sourced from the world’s leading constellation, we are in no lack of pixels. Making sense of these pixels is the real challenge: from mapping damaged buildings during natural disasters, detecting remote settlements so that humanitarian aid can be distributed, to tracking infrastructure changes in large cities, we continuously look for innovative ways to derive actionable insight on our changing world from our imagery. You can check out our projects at gbdxstories.digitalglobe.com.
Role
We are looking for a motivated and highly qualified Data Scientist to join the Data Science Applications team. For us, the ideal Data Scientist fulfills ALL the following requirements:
(a) solid scientific/quantitative background, with focus on machine learning and statistics/probability;
(b) excellent coding skills, with strong knowledge of Python;
(c) excellent oral and written communication skills;
(d) 'make-it-happen' attitude, the innate capacity for ownership and timely delivery of results in a fastpaced environment.
The following are pluses but are not prerequisites:
(a) graduate studies;
(b) experience with satellite imagery and geospatial tools/libraries such as GDAL and QGIS;
(c) web development.
Location
Westminster, CO
Compensation
DigitalGlobe offers a generous compensation package including a competitive salary; choice of medical plan; dental, life, and disability insurance; a 401(K) plan with competitive company match; paid holidays and paid time off
Applicants for this position will be required to take and pass a drug test.