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).
Requirements
- 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 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.
- Hands-on experience with remote sensing datasets (Landsat, Sentinel, MODIS, Planet Labs, or Iceye) and processing techniques.
- Experience building automated geospatial data pipelines.
- Experience with geospatial libraries and tools including GDAL/OGR, GeoPandas, Xarray, and/or Zarr.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and process spatial natural resource data and satellite imagery using GIS techniques.
- Design and develop 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.
- Troubleshoot and optimize existing applications for improved performance.
- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.
- Apply best practices for clean, maintainable code, rigorous testing, and continuous integration.
Other
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
- Ability to commute to the Dulles, VA facility, if needed for customer activities.
- Employees who are working in remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home) but may be expected to travel to the site location as needed.
- The successful candidate for this role will be required to reside and work from one of the 50 U.S. states (excluding U.S. territories).
- Candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site, hybrid or remote.
