Satellite Data Processing Engineer (Remote Sensing)

Location: Berlin, Germany; hybrid work with three days per week in the Berlin office

Salary: €38,000–€47,500 gross annually

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, and operates a large constellation of imaging satellites and delivers satellite imagery through a cloud-based data platform.

What you will do

• Assess satellite imagery manually and with automated tools against contractual and technical quality standards.
• Build and maintain internal quality-assessment tools, including QGIS-based tooling, backend scripts, and data pipelines.
• Support investigations of customer-reported imagery quality disputes by gathering technical evidence.
• Contribute to automated quality-assessment systems and help move routine checks from manual review to automation.
• Write clear technical reports and tickets for engineering teams.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s degree in geoinformatics, geomatics, remote sensing, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of optical remote sensing fundamentals.
• Solid Python skills, including version control, code review, and production-oriented scripting.
• Experience with QGIS or Python geospatial libraries such as GDAL, rasterio, or Shapely.
• Basic SQL and database familiarity.
• Clear written communication and the ability to explain technical findings to non-specialists.

Nice to have

• Linux experience.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI.
• Experience with desktop GUI development using PySide6 or Qt, or building small internal tools end-to-end.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation, holidays, and company-wide days off.
• Employee wellness program.
• Home office reimbursement.
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement.
• Tuition reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Equity and paid volunteering time off.