Location
Calgary, AB, Fort McMurray, AB, Fort St John, BC, North Vancouver/New Westminster, BC, Terrace, BC
Description
Hatfield is recognized as one of BC’s Top Employers as well as Canada’s Top Small and Medium Employers for 2022. With close to 50 years of environmental consulting experience, our work culture focuses on scientific excellence, professional development, a fun and inclusive environment, and providing flexible work arrangements including hybrid work options. In addition, we have a flat organizational structure, and a friendly, accessible, and down-to-earth management team that truly cares about employee career progression.
Hatfield is seeking a Geospatial Developer Co-Op to become part of our Remote Sensing Data Analytics Team in one of our offices for a four or eight-month term in 2023. The Co-Op will support in the development of geospatial/remote sensing analysis pipelines and algorithms using Python and deployed on our cloud native big data geoscience platform (GEO Analytics Canada – www.geoanalytics.ca). Other geospatial development tasks may be completed as assigned. At Hatfield, we work on problems like assessing the impact of habitat fragmentation on endangered woodland caribou, monitoring environmental determinants of health related to the spread of West Nile Virus and Lyme Disease, and modelling the species distribution of endangered North Atlantic Right Whales. We welcome applications from like-minded individuals who seek to apply technologies to address a wide range of environmental and social issues.
Responsibilities:
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support development of custom, scalable workflows for remotely sensed time-series data, including calibration, pre-processing, analyzing and data integration.
- Participate in manipulating geospatial datasets to extract information using methods such as change detection, trend analysis, segmentation, and image classification using machine learning (e.g., shallow and deep learning) algorithms.
- Implement validation procedures for classification systems and workflows.
- Support the creation of case study tutorials and documentation to promote functionalities and features of GEO Analytics Canada.
- Support on-going data management and reporting functions.
Education and Experience:
- Ongoing B.Sc., M.Sc., or post-graduate qualification in GIS, Remote Sensing, Engineering and/or Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
- Demonstrated experience programming in Python for image processing and analysis (e.g. rasterio, geopandas, seaborn/matplotlib).
- Experience applying machine learning algorithms.
- Knowledge and experience developing for Linux systems and Docker.
- Basic experience working with Google Earth Engine.
- Knowledge and experience in advanced Python libraries for geospatial data processing (e.g. Dask, Xarray, Futures).
- Experience applying machine learning algorithms.
Other Assets/Skills:
- Basic understanding of remote sensing principles, satellite data, and tools.
- Ability to work in a team of technical specialists with varying levels of experience and maintain a positive attitude.
- Ability to work in an environment that requires flexibility and multi-tasking.
- Ability to work with tight deadlines while retaining flexibility and a sense for priorities.
- Strong technical writing and communication skills.
Hatfield is committed to employment equity and workplace diversity. We strive for equity, inclusiveness and diversity, irrespective of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, or disability.
Reply in confidence with a cover letter and resume describing your experience through the online form or email at resumes@hatfieldgroup.catsone.com (no phone calls please). Please include “Geospatial Developer – Co-Op” in your email subject line. Salary expectations are also appreciated and may be included in your cover letter. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.