Geospatial Analytics Engineering Lead (Hybrid)

ICEYE Oy; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE Oy in Espoo, Finland, is seeking an Engineering Team Lead (Geospatial Analytics) to guide a product engineering team turning remote sensing data into fast, reliable insights during live events. You will own analytics across SAR, ML, and data engineering, shaping product behavior and performance with hands-on leadership.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, Geospatial Product Engineering, you will collaborate with Product and Operations to align roadmaps with customer needs, ensure

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Geoscience, Physics, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in hands-on leadership as a line manager or tech lead, with a track record of delivery and examples of people who grew under your leadership.
• Experience working closely with product and operations teams in a flow-based, outcome-focused way, including giving direct feedback constructively and explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• A record of taking analytics from prototype to reliable production against latency, accuracy and uptime targets, with sound judgement on when a solution is good enough.
• Experience building, validating and deploying ML models or analytical pipelines based on SAR or other remote sensing imagery for tasks such as damage assessment, change detection or object detection. Includes working with noisy or sparse labels, validating against ground truth and monitoring model performance in production.
• A solid grasp of SAR principles, including how backscatter responds to structural change in built environments, and applied experience in change detection using amplitude, coherence or interferometric (InSAR) methods.
• Strong Python skills and experience applying modern engineering practice (Git, code review, testing, CI, documentation), deployed with Docker on AWS. Ability to lead cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the product engineering team: hiring, growth, performance and wellbeing of the team members.
• Own the team's technical direction across analytics and engineering, taking work from research prototype to production systems that run reliably against customer commitments.
• Work in tandem with the Product Manager on roadmap and priorities, turning customer needs into analytics capability.
• Design shared change detection analytics that serve multiple products in the team’s portfolio.
• Collaborate closely with Operations on event response, so that delivery workflows, latency and quality hold up when it matters.
• Contribute directly to analytical development (SAR, geospatial data science / ML), validation and code.
• Set and maintain scientific and engineering standards across the team, including review practice, validation rigour, testing and documentation.
• Stakeholder management - including Product Engineering leadership and different product stakeholders

Skills

Hands-on leadership

Product/Operations communication

ML/Analytics experience

Python

Docker

AWS

Git

Cross-functional leadership

SAR / remote sensing knowledge

Education

Master’s degree or PhD in Remote Sensing / ML / DS / Electrical Eng / Geoscience / Physics / CS

Tools

Python

Docker

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Job description

ICEYE Oy in Espoo, Finland, is seeking an Engineering Team Lead (Geospatial Analytics) to guide a product engineering team turning remote sensing data into fast, reliable insights during live events. You will own analytics across SAR, ML, and data engineering, shaping product behavior and performance with hands-on leadership.

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, Geospatial Product Engineering, you will collaborate with Product and Operations to align roadmaps with customer needs, ensure