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 Arc Map, ERDAS Imagine, QGIS, Python, Google

Earth Engine (GEE), and PostGIS.

- Development & Libraries: Deep experience with Python geospatial libraries including

GDAL, Rasterio, Geo Pandas, and xarray.

- Domain & AI Knowledge: Robust 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 Linked In: Vassar Labs IT Solutions

📌 SME - GIS & Remote Sensing (Hyderabad)
🏢 Vassar Labs
📍 Hyderabad