NV5
AI

Geospatial Data Scientist

NV5 · Broomfield, CO, US

Actively hiring Posted 4 months ago

Role overview

  • Location: This position is a fully remote position within an engaged, virtual division at NV5.
  • Travel <10% of the time
  • Proof of U.S. Citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

  • Translate business requirements into technical specifications, data models, data streams, and databases
  • Develop production ready geospatial workflows and data pipelines using open-source python libraries
  • Work with online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytics processing (OLAP) stacks (PostgreSQL, DuckDB, PyArrow, Parquet / GeoParquet)
  • Develop spatial computation with H3, Shapely, GDAL/OGR and other lightweight geospatial utilities
  • Write testable, benchmarked code using pytest and async test patterns
  • Build with python package managers like uv and poetry utilizing pyproject.toml for project management
  • Collaborate in open-source–style repositories with linting, formatting, typing, and CI expectations
  • Build CI/CD pipelines with integrated unit tests
  • Convert or embed ML/AI workflows into production-grade, enterprise systems
  • Utilize Research, Plan, Implement strategies for AI-driven development practices
  • Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure for geospatial analysis and ML/AI applications on large data

Basic qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
  • 5 years of experience in data science, geospatial, IT, ML/AI, or related field
  • Must have had a Department of Defense Common Access Card in the past two years
  • Data/database architecture design within cloud computing infrastructure
  • Systems analysis
  • Experience working with Geospatial data
  • Strong Python engineering experience in production systems
  • Proven ability to design efficient spatial data pipelines
  • Experience working with spatial data analysis at scale
  • Comfort developing CI/CD pipelines and unit tests
  • Comfort working in backend systems that integrate with LLMs and AI
  • Comfort working as part of a software development team
  • Strong focus on correctness, reproducibility, and explainability
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Web map application development
  • Performing data analysis
  • Experience with Research, Plan, Implement strategies for AI-driven development practices
  • RAG and embeddings AI application development experience
  • Background in geospatial analytics outside traditional GIS stacks
  • Experience with data lakehouse platforms such as Databricks
  • Familiarity with a variety of geospatial data formats
  • Understanding of geospatial metadata requirements
  • Security+ Certification
  • Python
  • Apache Spark
  • PostGIS
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Databricks Platform
  • FOSS GIS Software (GDAL/OGR, PROJ, Leaflet, etc.)
  • FOSS GIS Platforms (GeoServer, QGIS, GRASS GIS)
  • Esri GIS Platforms (Desktop/Enterprise/Online)

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