Développeur SIG principal

NBC Universal
Montreal
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunityExperience: 2+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Collaboration","Curiosity","Enthusiasm","Willingness to learn","Comfort with automated development"]

Build and automate geospatial data pipelines that support AI/ML applications. Research and gather region-specific imagery, raster, vector, and point-cloud datasets from free/public and commercial sources, then manage coverage, freshness, quality, and cost. Develop tooling to clean, transform, align, crop, resample, and postprocess outputs so internal teams can use high-quality geospatial data for new machine learning models and region rollouts.

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Développeur SIG principal

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Job Summary

Build and automate geospatial data pipelines that support AI/ML applications. Research and gather region-specific imagery, raster, vector, and point-cloud datasets from free/public and commercial sources, then manage coverage, freshness, quality, and cost. Develop tooling to clean, transform, align, crop, resample, and postprocess outputs so internal teams can use high-quality geospatial data for new machine learning models and region rollouts.
Location: Montreal
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Aggregate geospatial data for target regions and ensure complete dataset coverage.
  • •Research and evaluate open/public and commercial sensor data sources for coverage, quality, and freshness.
  • •Preprocess and prepare geospatial data using open-source tools (e.g., GDAL) and internal software, including aligning, cropping, and resampling.
  • •Contribute to internal tools that process and source geospatial datasets.
  • •Partner with AI/ML, Pipeline, and Product teams to understand data needs and provide diverse, high-quality datasets to support new machine learning algorithms and region rollouts.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in GIS, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
  • •2+ years of relevant industry experience in a fast-paced, high-growth tech environment.
  • •Experience with GIS modalities and formats including orthoimagery (e.g., GeoTIFF), point clouds (e.g., LiDAR LAS/LAZ), vector data (e.g., ESRI Shapefiles, GeoJSON, OSM), and raster elevation/terrain (DTM/DSM/DEM) and landcover data.
  • •Software engineering experience designing and architecting systems, with required Python experience for automation and/or contributing to existing tools.
  • •Experience with open-source GIS libraries and tools (including PROJ and GDAL) and comfort working in a Linux/*nix shell environment (e.g., bash).
Experience:2+ yearsGeospatial
Education:Bachelor's in GIS, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Skills:CollaborationCuriosityEnthusiasmWillingness to learnComfort with automated development
Languages:EnglishFrench
Tech Stack:PythonGDALPROJLinuxBashGeoTIFFLiDARLAS/LAZESRI ShapefilesGeoJSONOSMDTMDSMDEMArcGIS

Company Brief

NBC Universal
NBCUniversal is a global media and entertainment company producing and distributing film, television, news, sports and streaming content, and operating theme parks and consumer experiences across a portfolio of well-known brands including NBC, Universal Pictures and Peacock.
Industry: Film & Television
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2004
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