Geospatial Scientist: DEMs, Hydrology Pipelines & Rust

Lynker; Boulder (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage for employee

401(k) with company matching

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

PTO and holidays

Tuition assistance

Life and disability insurance

Employee recognition programs

Job summary

Lynker seeks a Geospatial Scientist in Colorado to advance terrain and hydrography products. The role focuses on DEM processing, data storage design for large raster/vector datasets, and developing robust geospatial tooling, much of it in Rust, with extensive QA/QC and testing.

Responsibilities include ensuring analysis-ready terrain surfaces, reproducible pipelines, and collaboration across Science, Modeling, and Platform teams. Prior experience with hydrology/terrain datasets is preferred.

Qualifications

• Requires Master's in geospatial science or related field, or Bachelor's plus 2 years experience.
• Proficiency in Python for geospatial data processing and automation.
• Experience with Rust and contributing to Rust codebases preferred.
• Experience with GIS tools (ArcGIS, QGIS) and raster/vector formats.
• Strong grasp of CRS, reprojection, and QA/QC practices.
• Familiarity with Git, Linux, and command-line workflows.

Responsibilities

• DEM acquisition from public/partner sources and track provenance/licensing.
• Process and clean DEMs to create analysis-ready terrain surfaces.
• Design storage for large raster/vector datasets, including tiled/COG formats.
• Contribute to geospatial tooling in Rust and add unit tests/validation.
• QA/QC of vector hydrography and derived features; ensure data quality.
• Build reproducible terrain-processing pipelines adaptable to data changes.
• Document methods, data sources, and QA results; collaborate across teams.

Skills

Python geospatial

Rust

GIS tools

CRS/QAQC

Git/Linux/CLI

Education

Master's in geospatial science or related field

Tools

ArcGIS

QGIS

GDAL

PDAL

PostGIS

Job description

Lynker seeks a Geospatial Scientist in Colorado to advance terrain and hydrography products. The role focuses on DEM processing, data storage design for large raster/vector datasets, and developing robust geospatial tooling, much of it in Rust, with extensive QA/QC and testing.

Responsibilities include ensuring analysis-ready terrain surfaces, reproducible pipelines, and collaboration across Science, Modeling, and Platform teams. Prior experience with hydrology/terrain datasets is preferred.