Geospatial Data Engineer (Active TS/SCI Clearance), Washington DC

Rhombus is purposefully transforming the nation’s defense and national security enterprises with Guardian, its Artificial Intelligence platform for strategic, operational, and tactical decision-making at the speed of relevance. 

We are looking for people who are driven by a sense of purpose. In this role, you will solve our customer’s uniquely complex problems that others have said could not be solved, sometimes building things that have never before been built. 

You will have to accomplish these ambitious, industry-first projects on challenging timelines to meet the speed of the warfighter. Even as you apply that breathtaking creation of singular complexity, you will immediately need to move to the next complex challenge.  You will excel in this role if you are hungry to make a difference and are intellectually bold, and you’ll excel because you know that there is no other team in the world that could succeed under such conditions, and because you are proud to leave your indelible mark on the nation. And then you will smile when you hear our clients say, “If we can dream it, Rhombus can do it.” 

Come join our cross-disciplinary and world-class team of technologists who are working hard every day to deliver game-changing solutions to transform national security. 

Learn more about Rhombus and watch a demonstration of Guardian, our cutting edge AI Platform here, with additional insights here

Job description

Rhombus has an urgent and immediate need for a Mid to Senior Data Engineer with strong geospatial skills to join our team on-site in Washington D.C. In this role, you will be a part of a talented team of data engineers using geospatial and data manipulation techniques to provide time sensitive, innovative analytics to mission-critical partners and combatant commands. 

As a Geospatial Data Engineer at Rhombus you will design, develop, and launch efficient and reliable data pipelines to ETL, analyze, and model data and to provide intuitive analytics from Rhombus’ large and complex datasets. You’ll be working closely with clients towards the goal of increasing organizational and production efficiency and provide knowledge of geospatial data engineering/software development. To support deployment of some visualization, to develop and deploy web-based applications which can predict, explain, or analyze data. Candidates are expected to be highly proficient in Python. 

Clearance Requirement

You must have an active DoD or IC sponsored TS/SCI clearance or higher

Travel:

50%

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will be a part of a talented team of data engineers using geospatial and data manipulation techniques to provide time sensitive, innovative analytics to mission-critical partners and combatant commands
• In this position you will be focused on performing geospatial data engineering, data science, and data analysis to extract and analyze large and complex data sets, and to able to work with Subject Matter Experts to select and apply the appropriate analytical and visualization techniques
• You will collaborate with the team to develop innovative statistical and geospatial workflows and automate them to deliver insights to our clients
• Utilize Python and relevant libraries for spatial analytics
• Scripting in python to automate geospatial workflow, connecting to existing APIs to feed algorithms and/or front-end UIs
• Undertake statistical analyses to enhance data processing, manipulate large scale data sets, and provide analytic insights
• Will work closely with client towards goal of increasing organizational and production efficiency and provide knowledge of geospatial data engineering/software development

Qualifications

• At minimum BA/BS in Geography, Remote Sensing, Data Science, Computer Science, etc. MA/MS and PhD’s preferred
• Geospatial knowledge and experience with at least two technologies (priorities: Python, Rasterio/GDAL, Geopandas, Dask/Joblib, ArcGIS, QGIS)
• Experience working with geographic data (Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG), NITF, geojson, KML, Shapefiles etc.) and techniques (Change Detection, Object Detection etc.)
• Experience creating maps, charts, and other graphics to communicate analytics to stakeholders
• Experience configuration geoservers, geodatabases, and working within CUI/TS environments
• Strong background in database management solutions, familiarity with databases such as MySQL and Oracle
• A bonus to have military and/or DoD/IC experience in any of the following disciplines: data scie