Geospatial Automation Specialist
NaSPA, Inc., Austin, TX, United States
Surveying And Mapping, LLC
Geospatial Automation Specialist
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Job ID: 26-7502
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Aerial-GIS Continental United States
Overview For over thirty years, SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner. Our licensed professionals transform petabytes of complex spatial data into intelligent insights in a holistic Managed Geospatial Services™ (MGS™) framework. As North America's premiere MGS™ company, SAM provides practical, precise, and high‑fidelity solutions designed to enhance decision-making, mitigate risks, achieve strategic objectives, and drive costs out of our client's business. Our vision is to advance spatial data acquisition, improve analysis capabilities, and develop predictive analytics to redefine and transform how infrastructure assets are developed and managed throughout their lifecycles.
Responsibilities We are seeking a Geospatial Automation Specialist to design, build, and maintain scalable automation solutions for large geospatial datasets, with a primary focus on lidar point clouds, aerial imagery, and derived products. This role combines geospatial expertise with hands‑on software development to transform complex, manual GIS workflows into robust, repeatable, and high‑performance automated systems. You will work closely with project teams to translate operational geoprocessing workflows into reliable, production‑ready automated workflows.
Design, implement, and maintain automated lidar and GIS processing pipelines
Develop tools and utilities using C++ (Qt 6) and Python
Create and support ArcGIS geoprocessing workflows using ArcPy
Optimize performance for large‑scale datasets and point clouds
Collaborate with GIS analysts and domain experts to translate operational needs into reliable automation solutions
Participate in architecture decisions and help define best practices for geospatial automation
Qualifications
Preferred Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems, Geomatics, or other related technical field
Four (4) plus year in related experience
Strong experience with C++ (preferably Qt 6 or Qt 5)
Proficiency in Python for automation and scripting
Hands‑on experience with ArcPy and geoprocessing
Experience with geospatial libraries such as GDAL, PDAL, and Esri ArcPy
Solid understanding of geospatial data concepts, coordinate systems, and data formats
Experience working with large datasets and automated pipelines
Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git)
Preferred Skills
Lidar processing (classification, segmentation, feature extraction)
PostgreSQL / PostGIS and SQL
JavaScript or PHP for spatial or web‑based geospatial applications
Experience with parallel processing, multithreading, or large‑scale workflow optimization
Feature extraction utilizing AI/ML from imagery and/or lidar datasets
Experience deploying or supporting geospatial workflows in cloud or hybrid environments
Experience with project management tools such as Jira
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Job ID: 26-7502
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Aerial-GIS Continental United States
Overview For over thirty years, SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner. Our licensed professionals transform petabytes of complex spatial data into intelligent insights in a holistic Managed Geospatial Services™ (MGS™) framework. As North America's premiere MGS™ company, SAM provides practical, precise, and high‑fidelity solutions designed to enhance decision-making, mitigate risks, achieve strategic objectives, and drive costs out of our client's business. Our vision is to advance spatial data acquisition, improve analysis capabilities, and develop predictive analytics to redefine and transform how infrastructure assets are developed and managed throughout their lifecycles.
Responsibilities We are seeking a Geospatial Automation Specialist to design, build, and maintain scalable automation solutions for large geospatial datasets, with a primary focus on lidar point clouds, aerial imagery, and derived products. This role combines geospatial expertise with hands‑on software development to transform complex, manual GIS workflows into robust, repeatable, and high‑performance automated systems. You will work closely with project teams to translate operational geoprocessing workflows into reliable, production‑ready automated workflows.
Design, implement, and maintain automated lidar and GIS processing pipelines
Develop tools and utilities using C++ (Qt 6) and Python
Create and support ArcGIS geoprocessing workflows using ArcPy
Optimize performance for large‑scale datasets and point clouds
Collaborate with GIS analysts and domain experts to translate operational needs into reliable automation solutions
Participate in architecture decisions and help define best practices for geospatial automation
Qualifications
Preferred Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Systems, Geomatics, or other related technical field
Four (4) plus year in related experience
Strong experience with C++ (preferably Qt 6 or Qt 5)
Proficiency in Python for automation and scripting
Hands‑on experience with ArcPy and geoprocessing
Experience with geospatial libraries such as GDAL, PDAL, and Esri ArcPy
Solid understanding of geospatial data concepts, coordinate systems, and data formats
Experience working with large datasets and automated pipelines
Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git)
Preferred Skills
Lidar processing (classification, segmentation, feature extraction)
PostgreSQL / PostGIS and SQL
JavaScript or PHP for spatial or web‑based geospatial applications
Experience with parallel processing, multithreading, or large‑scale workflow optimization
Feature extraction utilizing AI/ML from imagery and/or lidar datasets
Experience deploying or supporting geospatial workflows in cloud or hybrid environments
Experience with project management tools such as Jira
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