Computer Aided Design Drafter

GeoSearch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for all full-time employees

Relocation assistance

Job summary

GeoSearch is seeking a Geospatial Product Specialist with hands-on surveying or CAD experience to validate feature extraction accuracy and stress-test new workflows against real-world datasets. You will work with product and engineering to ensure what we ship aligns with industry realities.

The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and marketing, with you guiding QA, collecting actionable feedback, and helping demonstrate capabilities to customers in clear, credible language.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with surveying, drafting, or CAD (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, or similar).
• Expert knowledge of feature extraction, geometry, and infrastructure workflows.
• Sharp eye for detail — you notice when a curb line is off or a classification is wrong.

Responsibilities

• QA new features against real-world LiDAR and mobile mapping datasets
• Identify extraction errors, edge cases, and workflow friction before they reach customers
• Provide structured, specific feedback to engineering and product teams
• Create screen recordings and narrated walkthroughs for tutorials, marketing, and demos
• Build repeatable QA checklists and testing workflows
• Act as the in-house authority on how surveyors and engineers actually work

Skills

Surveying experience

Drafting experience

Attention to detail

Tools

AutoCAD

Civil 3D

MicroStation

Job description

More your career from Survey Production to a YC-backed AI company. This esteemed client is seeking experienced Survey / Lidar professionals to join their team as a Geospatial Product Specialist. You'll work directly with product and engineering to validate feature extraction accuracy, stress-test new workflows against real-world datasets, and make sure what we ship reflects how the industry actually works.

This role is ideal for someone with hands-on surveying or CAD experience who wants to shape software the whole industry will use -- and can tell us clearly when it's wrong.

You'll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and marketing -- catching what engineers miss, providing structured feedback, and helping us demonstrate our capabilities to customers in plain, credible language. This firm can offer relocation assistance for the right candidate. They also offer equity for all full-time employees

Where you will make an impact:

• QA new features against real-world LiDAR and mobile mapping datasets
• Identify extraction errors, edge cases, and workflow friction before they reach customers
• Provide structured, specific feedback to engineering and product teams
• Create screen recordings and narrated walkthroughs for tutorials, marketing, and demos
• Build repeatable QA checklists and testing workflows
• Act as the in-house authority on how surveyors and engineers actually work

What you bring:

• Hands-on experience with surveying, drafting, or CAD (AutoCAD, Civil 3D, MicroStation, or similar)
• Expert knowledge of feature extraction, geometry, and infrastructure workflows
• Sharp eye for detail -- you notice when a curb line is off or a classification is wrong