Staff Software Engineer

Mapping Engineering Staff Software Development Job Posting

Maxar is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to join its Mapping Engineering team. We are looking for an enthusiastic developer with a passion for solving complex problems with customer driven objectives. Someone that is willing to learn and develop the tools and technologies related to image processing, remote sensing, geospatial and other AI applications.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the nexus of cutting edge geospatial and photogrammetric technologies and software engineering. These technologies eventually run in the cloud, mainly AWS. Our focus is on building foundational imagery formation tools so that we can provide the most utility with Maxar’s satellite imagery as well as others. We are service owners of technologies that include but are not limited to, satellite image accuracy, image co-alignment, image alignment to reference datums, mosaic construction, change detection and vector interoperability. You will be a part of a team developing these capabilities through the entire software life cycle. This position also offers the opportunity for career growth and to make a major impact across all these important work streams.

Life with Us

Your Project: In this role, you will be responsible for contributing to the design, development and deployment of software services supporting the Mapping Engineering domain. Working with subject matter experts in geospatial and photogrammetric disciplines you will be working on applications related to satellite imagery absolute and relative accuracy and other technologies to enable our imagery and others to be interoperable with one another as well as other modalities of geospatial data. Most of the software is written in python and C++. This work reaches across other teams which requires good communication and robust software. Most of the software you build will be run on AWS, deployed using CDK.

Your Career: We’re very serious about professional development and continuing education at Maxar. We offer our team members with the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has amazing resources to support learning and development. You will work with your manager, or a mentor, to set goals and design a development plan to advance your career.

What We Offer: Time for dedicated professional development, conference attendance, corporate partner and industry training, peer group collaboration, hackathons, as well as paid certifications, education

reimbursement and student loan forgiveness.
 

What you'll do day-to-day (with your colleagues):

• Design, development and/or deploy software services
• Incorporate customer feedback into software products.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure quality.
• Participate with team on daily standups
• Demonstrate working software
• Monitor AWS costs and system health
• Participate in design, requirement, and systems documentation
• Immerse yourself in the tools and systems built by your teams
• Evolve your language skills by staying current and improve efficiency using AI assisted code development tools

Minimum requirements for this position:

• Must be a U.S. citizen
• Bachelor’s degree
  • Desired degrees: Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Other degrees for consideration: Geography, Geographic information Systems (GIS), Geosciences, Remote Sensing, Cartography, Photogrammetry, or a related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience
• 5+ years demonstrated experience with programming, design, and development in Python or C++.
• Development experience with service-oriented software
• Development experience with current frameworks
• Experience working as a software developer
• Knowledge of multi-tier, heterogeneous architectures and how they typically fit together
• Understanding of what it takes to keep a software system or service healthy
• Tremendous Organization and Communication skills
• Knowledge of Agile Engineering Practices

These skills would be amazing:

• Master’s degree in related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
• Strong sense of self-motivation is essential – must be willing to be actively involved in the details of the software system life cycle
• Working knowledge of AWS or comparable cloud technologies
• Geodesic and/or photogrammetric expertise
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience 
• Strong troubleshooting skills 
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