Hydrosat is a venture-backed space data analytics company developing a new earth observation constellation and software to unlock the power of thermal infrared imagery. Our mission is to capture and deliver thermal infrared data, currently not available from other sources, to provide insights into crop health, drought and wildfire risk, industrial activity, and situational awareness to government and commercial customers.
What You’ll Do
We are seeking a Geospatial Software Engineer to support the operations of Hydrosat’s earth observation constellation. The team is responsible for building the software and services to produce data products from our novel earth observation system and deliver them to customers. This role will appeal to candidates looking to use their software engineering skills to impact the world in agriculture, climate, and public safety monitoring applications. The right candidate will be endlessly fascinated by thermal imaging, photography, and geography.
Key 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
- 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
Desired 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
- Employee options
- Health insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental
- Flexible time off
- Maternity, Paternity & Parental Leave
- 401K Matching
Hydrosat provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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