Staff Geospatial Analyst (GIS)

Location: Orlando, FL, United States. Applicants must be U.S. Persons: U.S. citizens, permanent residents, Asylees, or Refugees. The role may be subject to U.S. export control laws and requires the ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance.

Base pay: $84,000–$179,000 annually, depending on experience, qualifications, geographic work location, and market conditions.

Company

hirify.global develops spatial intelligence capabilities that help decision makers and operators understand current conditions and plan for future operations.

What you will do

• Lead the acquisition, preparation, processing, and maintenance of geospatial datasets for synthetic environments, terrain generation, modeling, simulation, and training systems.
• Extract, digitize, clean, attribute, edit, generalize, validate, and maintain vector features covering transportation, hydrography, structures, vegetation, terrain, and related content.
• Review AI-extracted and machine-assisted data for geometry, attribution, completeness, usability, and production readiness.
• Perform spatial analysis, coordinate-system transformations, conflation, generalization, data conversion, and imagery and elevation-data processing.
• Develop GIS standards, schemas, metadata requirements, repeatable workflows, automation scripts, technical documentation, and QA/QC procedures.
• Collaborate with product owners, engineers, testers, GIS professionals, and subject-matter experts; support Agile ceremonies, testing, demonstrations, stakeholder engagements, and mentorship of junior and mid-level analysts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in GIS, Geography, Geomatics, Cartography, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 7 years of professional experience in GIS, geospatial data processing, terrain-data production, or a related field.
• Advanced working knowledge of Esri ArcGIS, including ArcGIS Pro, and professional experience with Safe Software FME for transformation, translation, validation, and workflow automation.
• Working knowledge of QGIS and open-source geospatial tools.
• Strong understanding of coordinate reference systems, projections, datums, georeferencing, geospatial data models, and metadata.
• Experience with shapefiles, file geodatabases, GeoPackages, GeoJSON, KML/KMZ, imagery, raster elevation data, and point clouds.
• Experience with geospatial QA/QC, including topology, geometry, attribution, completeness, and positional accuracy checks.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and technical documentation skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to obtain and maintain any required security clearance and work effectively in security-conscious development environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with 3D terrain database generation or geospatial content development for modeling, simulation, and training systems.
• Experience with 3D GIS, multipatch data, 3D mesh, LiDAR, point clouds, photogrammetry, or digital elevation models.
• Experience with GeoMedia, Global Mapper, OSGViewer, Creator, GIMP, or comparable geospatial visualization tools.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL/PostGIS, ArcGIS Enterprise, Agile development, Jira, testing, configuration management, version control, and DevSecOps.
• Experience with 3D Tiles, web GIS, OGC services, and geospatial APIs including WMS, WMTS, WFS, REST, and GeoPackage.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role supporting defense training, mission rehearsal, and operational analysis systems.
• Benefits include paid time off, health and welfare insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees.
• Work involves collaboration in an Agile, security-conscious development environment.

Hiring process

• Submit an application through hirify.global’s Career page.
• The posting is open for three days from the posting or reposting date and remains active until a qualified candidate is identified.