Lynker
Geospatial Scientist
Boulder, CO, US
Sponsorship not specified$80k-$110kDetected 23 hours ago
PythonRustGitSQLLinuxScientific WritingGISCollaboration
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About the role
- Overview Lynker Corporation is a leading provider of innovative solutions in weather and climate science.
- Processing & cleaning: clean, mosaic, reproject, resample, and condition DEMs (void filling, hydro-enforcement, sink handling) to produce analysis-ready terrain surfaces.
- Strong grasp of coordinate reference systems, reprojection, and geospatial data QA/QC practices.
Responsibilities
- With a commitment to excellence and a passion for innovation, Lynker leverages cutting-edge technologies and scientific expertise to support the creation and delivery of improved operational weather forecasts.
- design and maintain storage for large raster and vector datasets, including tiling, cloud-optimized formats (COG), and efficient access patterns for downstream modeling.
- contribute to and validate our geospatial processing tools, much of it written in Rust, writing thorough unit tests and numerical validation of derived terrain products to keep results correct and numerically stable.
- perform quality assurance and quality control on vector hydrography and derived features (topology, geometry validity, attribute completeness, alignment against reference data).
- design reproducible terrain-processing pipelines that can regenerate products consistently as source data evolve.
- document methods, data sources, and QA results; collaborate across the Science, Modeling, and Platform teams to keep terrain and hydrography products fit for purpose.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Python for geospatial data processing and automation.
- Experience with GIS and geospatial tooling (e.g., ArcGIS, QGIS, GDAL, PDAL) and standard raster/vector formats.
- Experience with hydrologic terrain conditioning (hydro-enforcement, flow direction/accumulation, watershed delineation) and hydrography datasets.
- Experience with SQL and spatial databases (e.g., PostGIS).
Compensation
- Lynker's benefits include the following: Comprehensive healthcare for the employee at no monthly cost Healthcare benefit covers medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision Personal Time Off (PTO) Policy plus paid holidays Highly competit
Benefits
- DEM acquisition: national and regional digital elevation models from public and partner sources; track provenance, versions, licensing, and coverage.
Company info
- As part of our ongoing growth and expansion, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Geospatial Scientist to join our growing team.
- Our streamlined organization enables and empowers our talented professionals to tackle our customers' scientific and technical priorities - creatively and effectively.
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