Staff GIS Developer

NBCUniversal Intl.; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

NBCUniversal is seeking a GIS data Engineer to drive geospatial data and tooling for large-scale AI/ML applications. You will join a team of GIS engineers responsible for sourcing geospatial data across modalities and building automation and tooling for AI/ML pipelines.

You will gather data from imagery, vector data, and point clouds, manage coverage and freshness, and collaborate with AI/ML and product teams to roll out data for new regions.

Qualifications

• 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 orthoimagery (e.g.GeoTIFF), LiDAR point clouds, vector data, and rasters.
• Software engineering experience, including designing and architecting software; Python for automation is required.

Responsibilities

• Aggregate data for target regions and ensure a complete collection of data.
• Research open, public domain, and commercial sensor data sources for areas, quality, and freshness.
• Use open source tools (e.g., GDAL) to preprocess, align, crop, and resample data.
• Contribute to internal tools that process and source geospatial datasets.
• Partner with groups across the organization to understand GIS data needs for AI/ML research.
• Coordinate with AI/ML, Pipeline and Product teams to provide data for new regions.

Skills

Geospatial data analysis

Python automation

Open-source GIS

Data sourcing

Education

Masters degree in GIS/CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

GDAL

PROJ

Python scripting

Job description

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. We create world-class content, which we distribute across our portfolio of film, television, and streaming, and bring to life through our global theme park destinations, consumer products, and experiences. We own and operate leading entertainment and news brands, including NBC, NBC News, NBC Sports, Telemundo, NBC Local Stations, Bravo, and Peacock, our premium ad-supported streaming service. We produce and distribute premier filmed entertainment and programming through our powerhouse film and television studios, including Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features, and the four global television studios under the Universal Studio Group banner, and operate industry-leading theme parks and experiences around the world through Universal Destinations & Experiences, including Universal Orlando Resort, home to Universal Epic Universe, and Universal Studios Hollywood. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. Visit www.nbcuniversal.com for more information.

Our impact is rooted in improving the communities where our employees, customers, and audiences live and work. We have a rich tradition of giving back and ensuring our employees have the opportunity to serve their communities. We champion an inclusive culture and strive to attract and develop a talented workforce to create and deliver a wide range of content reflecting our world.

Job Description

In this role, you will drivegeospatial data and tooling needs for a large-scale project.You will be part of a team of GISengineers responsible for sourcinggeospatial datain many modalities,andforbuildinggeospatial dataautomation and tooling in an AI/ML pipeline for new applications.

In this role,you’llresearch andgather datafor specific regionsfromdifferent sources, including imagery and other raster data, vector data, and point clouds. You will find andacquiredata from free/public domain sources, as well as form and drivepartnerships with commercial data providers. You willbe responsible voor managingthe coverage, freshness, quality, and costof the sourced data.The most successfulteam memberswill have a working knowledge ofdisparate effective sources of data, and a curiosity for finding new ones.

To prepare this datafor AI/ML use,you’llbuild anduseautomatedtools (e.g.,incorporatingopen sourcelibraries likeGDAL andin-housetools) to clean, resize,reformat,and align it soit’sready forinternal customersto use.You will alsobe responsible fortooling to automatically postprocess the output of a geospatial AI/ML pipeline for use by other teams.

This role involves working closely with different teams in our organization.You’llpartner with the AI/ML teams to supply diverse data they need for building new machine learning models, and with the Pipeline and Product teams to ensure they have the necessary datarequired.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Aggregate data for target regions and ensure that a complete collection of data is available.
• Research open, public domain, and commercial sensor data sources todeterminethe areas, quality, and freshness of available data.
• Utilize open source (e.g.GDAL) and internally developed software tools to preprocess, align, crop, resample, and otherwise prepare data for use. Wepreferopen sourcetools over proprietarysoftware, butunderstand that some software has no greatopen sourceequivalent.
• Contribute to our internal tools that process and source geospatial datasets.
• Partner with groups across the organization to understandneedsforGIS data for AI/ML research. Coordinate withAI/ML team to provide diverse data for developing new machine learning algorithms, and the Pipeline and Product teams to provide data to roll out new regions.
• Partner closely with leadership to understand the high-level product vision.

Qualifications

• Mastersdegree inGIS,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 oforthoimagery(e.g.GeoTIFF),point clouds such asLiDAR (e.g. LAS/LAZ), vector data (e.g. ESRI Shapefiles,GeoJSON, OSM),raster data storingelevation and terrain information such as DTM, DSM, and DEMs,andraster data storinglandcover information.
• Software engineering experience, includingdesigning and architecting software. Experience inPythonforautomation of common tasks and/or contributing to our existing tool paletteisrequired.

Desired Characteristics:

• Team-oriented and collaborative approach with a demonstrated aptitude,enthusiasmand willingness to learn new methods, tools,practicesand skills.
• Passion and curiosity for GIS and software engineering.
• Experience working with open-source GIS libraries and tools, including PROJ and GDAL, for spatial data processing, transformation, and analysis.Comfort with working outside of an ArcGIS-centric workflow.
• Experience with someflavorof Linux. Comfort with some flavor of a*nix shell environment (e.g.bash) isstronglypreferred.
• Enthusiasm for automated development processes and systems.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts andperks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range:$125,000 - $160,000 (bonus eligibility).

Additional Information

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