Staff GIS Developer

🔥 0 minutes ago

🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

💵 $125k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🗺️ GIS

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

This company has sponsored H1B visas in the past.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Receive Emails For Remote Jobs

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume

NBCUniversal

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 2004

📱 Media

Media • Entertainment

NBCUniversal is a leading global media and entertainment company known for creating and distributing content across a variety of platforms. With over 100 years of experience, it is a part of Comcast and encompasses brands like Peacock, NBC Sports, and many others to educate, entertain, and empower audiences around the world. The company is involved in television broadcasting, film production, and theme parks, and is also recognized for its initiatives in technology and corporate social responsibility. NBCUniversal is committed to innovation and social impact, making it a vibrant workplace for media and tech professionals.

📋 Description

• Drive geospatial data and tooling needs for a large-scale project • Source geospatial data in many modalities • Build geospatial data automation and tooling in an AI/ML pipeline for new applications • Research and gather data for specific regions from different sources, including imagery and other raster data, vector data, and point clouds • Find and acquire data from free/public domain sources, as well as form and drive partnerships with commercial data providers • Manage the coverage, freshness, quality, and cost of the sourced data • Build and use automated tools (e.g., incorporating open source libraries like GDAL and in-house tools) to clean, resize, reformat, and align data for internal customers • Responsible for tooling to automatically postprocess the output of a geospatial AI/ML pipeline for use by other teams • Partner with AI/ML teams to supply diverse data they need for building new machine learning models • Collaborate with Pipeline and Product teams to ensure they have the necessary data required.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) • paid leave • tuition reimbursement • a variety of other discounts and perks