GIS Technician at Zipline

Job Description

• Be responsible for photogrammetric processing of UAV imagery data to generate photogrammetry outputs, including a DSM, orthomosaic, and point clouds
• Train on how to perform quality control of photogrammetric outputs
• Construct flight routes that successfully navigate around any identified hazards
• Perform quality control on geospatial datasets to ensure data meets accuracy requirements
• Prepare and ingest UAV datasets into Zipline’s flight planning system

Within 3 months you will:

• Bring on new delivery sites by using in-house tooling to develop flight routes to new sites
• Track production progress across multiple Zipline Distribution Centers
• Continuously identify and implement ways to expand, improve, and streamline the tooling and systems used to bring on new delivery sites

By 6 months, you will:

• Help train a growing team of GIS Analysts
• Manage competing priorities and make tough decisions
• Track productivity and measure the output of the team against ambitious goals

Requirement/Skills

• Experience working with Digital Elevation Models, Orthophotography and Lidar Point Clouds
• Good understanding of projections/datum
• Experience with UAV datasets
• Experience with remote sensing: able to identify and extract features from raster imagery using a combination of manual and automated means
• Strong working knowledge of GIS Tools such as ArcGIS, QGIS, Global Mapper, and GDAL
• Strong computer literacy: comfortable using command line tools, able to install software.
• Excellent data management skills: act as a data steward for a variety of spatial datasets that are used across multiple groups within the company.
• Real-world prioritization: adept at ruthlessly prioritizing projects, able to prioritize multiple work streams and data analysis requests.
• Operations & productivity: able to be prolific, efficient, and fast in order to meet demanding timelines and last-minute needs
• Strong attention to detail and an ability to get stuff done, no matter what the hurdles are

Highly valued experience:

• Remote sensing background
• Experience processing UAV collected imagery into Digital Surface Models and Orthomosaics
• Comfortable using BASH terminals
• Familiarity with git
• Python experience a plus