Job Description

Overview

If you have great programming skills, dream about using your talent and experiences in a global influencer organization, and are passionate about developing tools and workflows that solve complex problems, join us! Our team works on feature matching, change detection, attributes transfer, spatial adjustments, and more. This is a great opportunity to work with a dedicated team as we support worldwide customers who are maintaining and updating their geographic databases from multiple sources for accurate spatial analysis and multi-scale quality mapping.

Come join the Conflation project team in Spatial Analysis and Geoprocessing to make a difference in the GIS community!

Responsibilities

• Assist with speeding up the research, development, and enhancements of conflation tools and workflows for ArcGIS Pro with state-of-the-art intelligence and techniques
• Build conflation tools using new or enhanced algorithms that allow users to reconcile differences and apply changes among multiple data sources efficiently
• Build and ship quality software by working effectively in a highly interactive and coordinated team environment
• Use pattern recognition, similarity analysis, statistical measures, and other computational geometry techniques in conflation processes to produce reliable results
• Participate in research and development of new ideas and approaches that match or exceed the existing quality
• Research and implement strategies and processes to ensure scalability for large data volume
• Explore the use of progressive or optimization approaches to improve conflation accuracy
• Explore on hybrid methods and tools for conflation with additional data sources, such as imagery, lidar, GPS
• Ultimately help build and deliver an integrated conflation management system
• Follow design patterns, development methodologies, and deployment techniques using C++
• Find, analyze, and fix bugs and performance problems whenever they occur in the software
• Contribute to and run tests to ensure high quality development free of regressions

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in C/C++/C# or related software development languages
• Firm understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, and design patterns
• Experience with computational geometry and algorithms
• Ability to clearly analyze and describe problems, and propose solutions
• The ability and knowledge to solve complex spatial problems
• Knowledge of progressive and optimization approaches
• Knowledge of asynchronous programming patterns and parallel processing methods
• Friendly, respectful, and open-minded attitude and ability to work closely with a team of software developers, product engineers, and others to build quality software and meet the demands
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computational Science, Mathematics, or related field

Recommended Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Computational Science, Mathematics, or related field
• Familiarity with Esri products or similar GIS software
• Experience with the development and release of commercial software products
• Experience in data quality, data integration, and spatial analysis
• Knowledge of cartography and multi-scale mapping
• Knowledge about machine learning or AI
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python
• Experience writing testable (or test-driven) software
  

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The Company

At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life's best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esri's Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.

If you don't meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!

Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email askcareers@esri.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.

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