Geospatial Software Developer

ADNET Systems seeks a Geospatial Software Developer to support NASA Langley Crowdsourcing, focusing on collocation code for satellite missions, campaigns, and stakeholder documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain collocation software for ongoing and upcoming satellite missions.
• Support crowdsourcing campaigns and related data workflows.
• Maintain and update the collocation database to ensure data integrity.
• Interface with observers to deliver data products to scientists.
• Coordinate collaboration with internal and external NASA partners, users, and stakeholders.
• Produce documentation and communicate findings to stakeholders in a clear manner.

Requirements

• Experience with NASA ESDS and Earth Data products across multiple satellite missions.
• Proficiency in geospatial Python, using libraries such as Xarray, GeoPandas, and Numpy to process multi-dimensional Earth science data.
• Experience programmatically querying geospatial catalogs via APIs like NASA's Common Metadata Repository (CMR), plus familiarity with subsetting tools and cloud-optimized data access (AWS, Zarr, OPeNDAP).
• Ability to extract variables from NetCDF4 and HDF5 formats and develop algorithms to match ground-based observations with satellite swaths and grids in space and time.
• Knowledge of relational or NoSQL databases for storing, indexing, and querying scientific or geospatial datasets.
• Capacity to produce clear technical documentation, data dictionaries, workflow guides, and reproducible code examples.
• Familiarity with software engineering practices including Git version control, modular code design, testing, and reproducible workflows.
• Strong communication skills to explain complex concepts to interdisciplinary teams.
• Ability to plan, manage, and deliver tasks with limited supervision.
• Willingness to work behind the firewall at ASDC and comply with security and access protocols.
• U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident and eligibility to obtain Public Trust level clearance for work at a Civilian Government Agency.

Technologies

• Python, Xarray, GeoPandas, Numpy
• NASA Common Metadata Repository (CMR) API
• AWS, Zarr, OPeNDAP
• NetCDF4, HDF5
• Git, Cartopy, Matplotlib
• Relational databases, NoSQL databases

Benefits

• Annual Leave and Sick Leave
• Military and Family Emergency Leave
• Paid Holidays
• Performance Bonuses
• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• Direct Deposit Payroll
• 401K Plan with Company Matching and Immediate Vesting
• Tuition Reimbursement

Desired Skills

• Programmatic Visualization: Experience building automated geospatial visuals such as maps and plots using Cartopy or Matplotlib