GIS Developer (staff level)

Role Summary

In this role, you will drive geospatial data and tooling needs for a large-scale project. You will be part of a team of GIS developers responsible for sourcing geospatial data in many modalities, and for building geospatial data automation and tooling in an AI/ML pipeline for new applications.

In this role, you’ll research and gather data for specific regions from different sources, including imagery and other raster data, vector data, and point clouds. You will find and acquire data from free/public domain sources, as well as form and drive partnerships with commercial data providers. You will be responsible for managing the coverage, freshness, quality, and cost of the sourced data. The most successful team members will have a working knowledge of disparate effective sources of data, and a curiosity for finding new ones.

To prepare this data for AI/ML use, you’ll build and use automated tools (e.g., incorporating open source libraries like GDAL and in-house tools) to clean, resize, reformat, and align it so it’s ready for internal customers to use. You will also be responsible for tooling to automatically postprocess the output of a geospatial AI/ML pipeline for use by other teams.

This role involves working closely with different teams in our organization. You’ll partner with the AI/ML teams to supply diverse data they need for building new machine learning models, and with the Pipeline and Product teams to ensure they have the necessary data required.

Dans ce rôle, vous piloterez les besoins en données géospatiales et en outils pour un projet d’envergure. Vous ferez partie d’une équipe de développeurs SIG responsable de l’acquisition de données géospatiales provenant de multiples sources et modalités, ainsi que du développement d’outils et d’automatisations au sein d’un pipeline IA/ML pour soutenir de nouvelles applications.

Vous effectuerez des recherches et collecterez des données pour des régions spécifiques à partir de diverses sources, notamment l’imagerie, les données raster, vectorielles et les nuages de points. Vous exploiterez des données provenant de sources ouvertes/publiques et développerez des partenariats avec des fournisseurs commerciaux. Vous serez responsable de la gestion de la couverture, de l’actualité, de la qualité et des coûts des données. Les profils les plus performants démontrent une solide expertise ainsi qu’une curiosité marquée pour découvrir de nouvelles sources de données.

Afin de préparer les données pour des applications d’IA/AA, vous concevrez et développerez des outils automatisés (en vous appuyant sur des bibliothèques open source telles que GDAL et des systèmes internes) pour nettoyer, transformer et aligner les jeux de données. Vous serez également responsable des outils de post-traitement des résultats issus des pipelines géospatiaux d’IA/AA.

Ce poste nécessite une collaboration étroite avec plusieurs équipes. Vous travaillerez avec les équipes d’IA/AA ainsi qu’avec les équipes Pipeline et Produit afin de garantir la disponibilité de données diversifiées et de haute qualité pour soutenir la recherche, le développement et la mise en production.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but not limited to

• Aggregate data for target regions and ensure that a complete collection of data is available.
• Research open, public domain, and commercial sensor data sources to determine the areas, quality, and freshness of available data.
• Utilize open source (e.g. GDAL) and internally developed software tools to preprocess, align, crop, resample, and otherwise prepare data for use. We prefer open source tools over proprietary software, but understand that some software has no great open source equivalent.
• Contribute to our internal tools that process and source geospatial datasets.
• Partner with groups across the organization to understand needs for GIS data for AI/ML research. Coordinate with AI/ML team to provide diverse data for developing new machine learning algorithms, and the Pipeline and Product teams to provide data to roll out new regions.
• Partner closely with leadership to understand the high-level product vision.

Responsabilités principales

• Agréger des données géospatiales pour les régions ciblées et assurer une couverture complète et de haute qualité.
• Rechercher des sources de données ouvertes, publiques et commerciales afin d’en évaluer la couverture, la qualité et l’actualité.
• Développer et utiliser des outils (open source comme GDAL et systèmes internes) pour le prétraitement, l’alignement, le découpage et le rééchantillonnage des données.
• Contribuer activement et diriger le développement d’outils internes pour l’acquisition et le traitement des données géospatiales.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and satisfy GIS data needs for AI/AA research and product deployments.
• Provide diverse datasets to support the development of new machine learning models and expansion to new regions.
• Work closely with management to align technical execution with the product vision.
• Masters degree in GIS, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 4+ years of relevant industry experience in a fast paced, high growth tech environment.

Experience with GIS modalities and formats, including at least some of orthoimagery (e.g. GeoTIFF), point clouds such as LiDAR (e.g. LAS/LAZ), vector data (e.g. ESRI Shapefiles, GeoJSON, OSM), raster data storing elevation and terrain information such as DTM, DSM, and DEMs, and raster data storing landcover information.

Software engineering experience, including designing and architecting software. Experience in Python for automation of common tasks and/or contributing to our existing tool palette is required.

Requirements

Desired Characteristics

• Team-oriented and collaborative approach with a demonstrated aptitude, enthusiasm and willingness to learn new methods, tools, practices and skills.
• Passion and curiosity for GIS and software engineering.
• Experience working with open-source GIS libraries and tools, including PROJ and GDAL, for spatial data processing, transformation, and analysis. Comfort with working outside of an ArcGIS-centric workflow.
• Experience with some flavor of Linux. Comfort with some flavor of a *nix shell environment (e.g. bash) is strongly preferred.
• Enthusiasm for automated development processes and systems.
• Master's degree in GIS, computer science, engineering, mathematics or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of relevant experience in a dynamic and fast-growing technological environment.

Experience with GIS data formats and types, including

• Orthophotographs (e.g. GeoTIFF)
• Point clouds (e.g. LiDAR LAS/LAZ)
• Vector data (e.g. Shapefiles, GeoJSON, OSM)
• Elevation raster data (DTM, DSM, DEM)
• Land use data
• Strong software engineering skills, including systems design and architecture.
• Proficiency in Python for automation and tool development.

Strengths

• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills, with a proactive approach.
• Passion for GIS, geospatial data and software development.
• Experience with open source GIS libraries such as GDAL and PROJ.
• Ability to work outside of an ArcGIS-centric environment.
• Experience with Linux environments and comfort with command line tools (e.g. bash).
• Interest in automated and scalable development systems.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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