SME - GIS & Remote Sensing

We are seeking a Senior SME – GIS & Remote Sensing with 8+ years of experience to lead the architecture and development of scalable geospatial models, automated pipelines, and spatial analytics. You will drive technical execution for large-scale water, agriculture, and climate security projects, mentoring junior engineers and interfacing with client leadership. Key Responsibilities • Remote Sensing & Spatial Modeling: Design and deploy satellite-based models for crop classification, crop health, phenology tracking, and soil moisture estimation using Optical (Sentinel-2) and SAR (Sentinel-1) datasets. • Hydrological & Climate Analytics: Perform surface water monitoring, conservation structure assessments, flood mapping, and watershed analytics. • Pipeline Automation & Scalability: Build scalable, automated workflows and pipelines for large-scale satellite datasets using Python, Google Earth Engine (GEE), and PostGIS. • Advanced Analytics & AI/ML: Apply machine learning, deep learning, time-series analytics, and rule-based modeling to geospatial data streams. • GIS Engineering & Data Management: Oversee spatial database architecture, digitization, georeferencing, and multi-source tabular/spatial data integration. • Validation & Quality Control: Validate predictive outputs against ground-truth field data to continuously refine model accuracy. • Technical Leadership & Documentation: Author technical whitepapers, architecture designs, and methodologies; mentor junior analysts and present technical insights to stakeholders. Preferred Experience & Skills • Work Experience: Minimum 5+ years of core experience in remote sensing, GIS analysis, and geospatial software development, with a proven track record of handling enterprise or government-scale projects. • Education: M.Tech in Geoinformatics / M.Sc in Geospatial Engineering, Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, or Ph.D. in Agriculture, Geospatial Technology, Remote Sensing, or related fields from Tier 1 College • Satellite Data Expertise: Advanced expertise in processing Sentinel-1 (SAR) and Sentinel-2 (Optical) data, including multi-temporal analysis, crop phenology, and soil moisture estimation. • Technical Stack & Tools: Proficiency in ArcMap, ERDAS Imagine, QGIS, Python, Google Earth Engine (GEE), and PostGIS. • Development & Libraries: Deep experience with Python geospatial libraries including GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas, and xarray. • Domain & AI Knowledge: Strong understanding of ML/DL algorithms, time-series analytics, spatial analytics, hydrology, and climate science. • Leadership & Analytical Skills: Excellent problem-solving abilities, strong technical documentation skills, and experience mentoring team members and guiding external stakeholders. About Vassar Labs Vassar Labs is a R&D technology driven company started by IIT and MIT(Boston) alumnus, building products and solutions for global problems of Climate Change, focusing on assets and utilities that are becoming more vulnerable to the impact of climate change. We make use of latest technologies like IoT, AI/ML, Cloud computing, Remote Sensing, Drone, Big Data etc. and developed Digital Transformation solutions that eliminate time consuming manual processes by automating processes and engage stakeholders to a common platform for easy accessibility and quick actions. At Vassar Labs, we are harnessing AI in a wide range of economic sectors and situations to contribute in managing environmental impacts and climate change. Building a breathable ecosystem for water resource management, precision agriculture, sustainable supply chains, environmental monitoring and enforcement, with enhanced weather and disaster prediction models. Vassar Labs has been appraised as SEI CMMI (Level 5) and holds ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013 Certification for quality management and information security management system respectively. We have more than 20 large scale deployments in the domain of water, agriculture and smart cities and over 10 projects in digital transformations for some of the F500 companies. Company Websites : https://vassarlabs.com you can also follow us on LinkedIn : Vassar Labs IT Solutions