Part-Time Geospatial Programmer (TS/SCI w/ Poly)

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McLean, VA
131K-219K Annually
Senior level
Aerospace • Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Software • Analytics • Defense • Big Data Analytics
Maxar is a leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights.
The Role
As a part-time Geospatial Software Developer, you'll support an enterprise geospatial data visualization application and perform analysis of various data sets to assist national security missions. Responsibilities include developing tools, optimizing workflows, and managing cloud migration while working with Python and ElasticStack.
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Maxar is looking to for a part-time Geospatial Software Developer to provide support for an enterprise geospatial data visualization application and support vital analysis of various, unique data sets. If you are a developer who likes to handle big data and engineer time saving solutions, we need your skills!
You'll have the unique opportunity to provide support to two important missions supporting national security. One project, we're identifying, obtaining, and analyzing various data sets and providing quantitative analytic techniques to model foreign adversaries' behavior in support of time-critical world events. This utilizes large data sets manipulated with Python. In the other project, you'll join an exciting team of software developers building and maintaining a data visualization and analytic web application with a wide and stable user base. The tool is currently in the process of finalizing migration to a cloud environment and will soon undertake several exciting new development initiatives.
Career: At Maxar we're very serious about professional development and continuing education. We offer everyone the opportunity to define their own career trajectory. Our group has some amazing resources at its disposal specifically for this purpose. You will work with your direct supervisor and/or a mentor to set appropriate goals and design a plan to help you make consistent progress.
Day-to-day with your colleagues:

  • Meeting with the customer to understand and refine the requirements.
  • Developing new tools and adapt existing tools.
  • Recommending best practices for data storage and manipulation.
  • Reviewing current practices, identifying process improvements, and implementing them.
  • Supporting cloud migration activities.
  • Modernizing workflows, interfaces and code base to include containerization of existing code within the cloud.
  • Supporting the further development of an existing web viewer application in the ESRI JavaScript API and other related technologies.
  • Assisting the ingest of geospatial data including imagery, maps, charts, GIS feature data and integrated GIS data to the Sponsor's web applications.
  • Creating methodologies for manipulation of large data sets to derive answers to specific intelligence problems for which the data can reveal insight.


Minimum Requirements:

  • Current/active TS/SCI security clearance with required Polygraph.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geography, or related technical field.
  • 5+ years of professional experience with software development.
  • Ability to automate workflows using Python.
  • Experience using Python to manipulate spatial data. Creating and modifying modules in Python.
  • Experience with ElasticStack to include- analysis of large datasets using ElasticSearch and Kibana, and the ability to maintain Elastic clusters.
  • Willingness to work onsite full time


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In support of pay transparency at Maxar, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.
• The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $131,000.00 - $219,000.00 annually.
For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.maxar.com/careers/benefits
The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.
The date of posting can be found on Maxar's Career page at the top of each job posting.
To apply, submit your application via Maxar's Career page.
Maxar Technologies values diversity in the workplace and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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The Company
HQ: Westminister, CO
3,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1969

What We Do

Maxar Intelligence is a leading provider of secure, precise geospatial insights. Operating the most advanced commercial Earth observation constellation on orbit, we use the power of very high-resolution satellite imagery—including from our partners—and software technology to deliver mission success on Earth and in space. ​

We continue to invest in our industry-leading Earth imaging constellation to provide secure, near real-time access to the highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery. Our exquisite imagery archive includes 20+ years of data, and we’re also integrating third-party remote sensing datasets to complement our foundation. To create the future, we’re using petabytes of data, new software and AI/ML technologies to develop products and solutions that can deliver faster, more actionable insights in 2D and 3D and unlock the potential of a multi-sensor world. ​

Our secure, AI-powered products and services give our customers a strategic advantage, delivering ground truth in near real-time to keep nations safe, improve navigation, protect our planet, speed up disaster response and more.​​

Why Work With Us

Maxar Intelligence is a place for problem solvers, changemakers and go-getters—where people are working together to deliver on an ambitious vision for the geospatial industry to transform the way our customers see the world, and in doing so, see themselves differently.

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