Senior Geospatial Software Engineer (Remote)

Date Posted:

2025-08-13

Country:

United States of America

Location:

RVA99: RTN Remote, Virginia

Position Role Type:

Remote

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

Raytheon is seeking a Geospatial Software Engineer for the Next Gen Water Prediction Capability (NGWPC) program. The NGWPC program intends to build a scalable, operational-quality Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Framework, hydrologic and hydraulic model formulations, upgraded Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) capabilities, and an underlying enterprise hydrofabric used in operational National Water Model (NWM) and flood forecasting operations.  It is a cornerstone for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Water Prediction (OWP).

What You Will Do

• Travel to Dulles, VA facility as needed for customer activities.. 

• Analyze and process spatial natural resource data and satellite imagery using GIS techniques.

• Design and develop scalable geospatial services in Python, leveraging formats such as STAC, Zarr, and GeoTIFFs.

• Design and deploy geospatial data services to cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Analyzes systems requirements and design specifications.

• Performs conceptual design, detailed design, code, and unit test and may involve database analysis, design, and implementation.

• Apply best practices for clean, maintainable code, rigorous testing, and continuous integration.

• Tests, debugs, and refine the computer software to produce the required product.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Cartography, GIS, Computer Science or a related field and a minimum of 5 years of professional experience

• Experience with geospatial or data-intensive backend systems at enterprise scale.

• Experience in one or more operating systems, integrated development environments (IDEs), and Python for geospatial data processing.

• Experience developing test automation scripts to include automated unit testing, automated regression testing, automated integration, and automated security testing.

• Experience integrating software (modules, components, subsystems) and conducting system/software integration and testing of software products.

• Experience with raster and/or vector data, coordinate reference systems (CRS), and/or common formats such as GeoTIFF, NetCDF, and/or COGs.

• Experience with geospatial libraries and tools including GDAL/OGR, GeoPandas, Xarray, and/or Zarr.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Hands-on experience with remote sensing datasets (Landsat, Sentinel, MODIS, Planet Labs, Iceye) and processing techniques.

• Experience in creating and integrating hydrofabric geospatial representation of perceptual model with metadata.

• Background in hydraulic modeling, remote sensing, GIS, environmental science, or related disciplines.

• Experience building automated geospatial data pipelines.

• Familiarity with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs/LSTMs), or other deep learning approaches for spatial data.

• Software containerization experience using Kubernetes, Singularity and/or Docker.

• Experienced with command-line interface (CLI) and user interface (UI) to run programs, manage geospatial datasets, and interact with the computer.

• Experience with Agile/scrum, continuous integration and automated test frameworks and well versed with SDLC including best practices and procedures.

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

• Not Relocation Eligible – Relocation assistance not available. 

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