Senior Geospatial AI Engineer

Esri; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Basic life insurance

Supplemental life insurance

401(k) and profit-sharing

Vacation leave (80 hours min)

Paid holidays (12 per year)

Job summary

Esri is seeking a senior software engineer to help lead the development of advanced image analysis solutions for the defense and intelligence community. You will design, test, document, and deploy software applying photogrammetry, remote sensing, and AI to geospatial capabilities.

Mentoring and cross-team collaboration are key aspects of the role. The position emphasizes delivering high-quality software with strong user-focused design, supporting formats like NITF and GeoTIFF, and ensuring

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience with COTS or GOTS software products.
• Advanced experience in remote sensing, image processing, photogrammetry, or image analysis.
• Proven ability to lead major testing or design efforts and mentor others.
• Strong skills in preparing and automating test strategies and cases.
• Experience managing project timelines and dependencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to work with controlled unclassified information (CUI).
• U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret clearance with SCI access.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and test industry leading software solutions for imagery products supporting common defense and intelligence formats such as NITF, GeoTIFF, CADRG and MISB compliant video (FMV).
• Collaborate with software developers to integrate and test community analytical toolkits and libraries into ArcGIS.
• Orchestrate and document results from defense and intelligence holistic lab testing.
• Collaborate with software developers on software project teams designing and building new software and planning for future releases.
• Define, document, and prioritize user requirements and develop best practices for using GIS software in various real-world remote sensing scenarios.
• Potentially lead the design, development, and documentation of automated QA plans and tests (SOPs, image quality metric evaluations and regression testing).

Skills

Remote sensing

Image processing

Leadership

Test automation

Project management

Communication

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in geography, engineering, remote sensing, photogrammetry

Master's degree in geography, engineering, remote sensing, photogrammetry

Tools

Python

C#

ArcGIS Pro

ENVI

SOCET GXP

Erdas

Job description

Esri is seeking a senior software engineer to help lead the development of advanced image analysis solutions for the defense and intelligence community. You will design, test, document, and deploy software applying photogrammetry, remote sensing, and AI to geospatial capabilities.

Mentoring and cross-team collaboration are key aspects of the role. The position emphasizes delivering high-quality software with strong user-focused design, supporting formats like NITF and GeoTIFF, and ensuring