Dove Air’s mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. We believe that where you live should never dictate whether you live. We are at the forefront of a logistics revolution, using autonomous aircraft to deliver just-in-time, lifesaving medical supplies at a national scale in several countries and expanding around the world. Are you interested in building a system that 500 million people will depend on with their lives?
Ready to change the world?
Dove Air’s mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. We believe that where you live should never dictate whether you live. We are at the forefront of a logistics revolution, using autonomous aircraft to deliver just-in-time, lifesaving medical supplies at a national scale in several countries and expanding around the world. Are you interested in building a system that 500 million people will depend on with their lives?
Responsibilities
- This role works very closely with the Business Development team to support our expansion efforts throughout the world. As a GIS Developer, you will:
- Analyze pre-commercial opportunities. Inform Dove Air’s and our potential customers’ understanding of a potential deployment in given geography using GIS layers and other geographic data sets, including but not limited to attributes such as population, health system infrastructure, other utility infrastructure, airspace, and health outcomes.
- Placement of Distribution Centers. Identify optimal places for a new center given a set of various internal and external parties’ key needs and constraints.
- GIS Data Processing. Own transforming data layers used for early-stage analysis into the required inputs for both New Deployments and Site Bring up processes.
- Visual Representations. Create compelling maps and other visuals of Dove Air’s potential deployments that convey clear information to external and internal audiences as needed
- The data source of truth. Maintain, curate, and source the data that Dove Air uses for making business-critical decisions.
- Build Geospatial Tools. Surface data into useful web-based tools and formats to speed up the analysis of teams at Dove Air.
- Maintain a Geospatial Platform. Help tie together all geospatial data at Dove Air into one integrated system.
To succeed, you need to have:
- Strong GIS software skills in ESRI (arc-gis) or QGis; Relational Database – Postgres / PostGIS; Python
- Proficiency in 3D coordinate system transformations
- Excellent analytical skills
- Creativity in how to approach/triangulate analysis when there is limited information available
- Strong cartographic skills and visual design instincts for making customer-facing materials as appropriate
- Ability to communicate clearly with internal team members to understand their needs, surface roadblocks, identify creative solutions that meet needs appropriately, and prioritize across internal customers (particularly when faced with conflicting deadlines)
- Excellent ability to transform information or computed data into geospatial data layers
It is a bonus if you have:
- Strong software experience in GDAL / Shapely / Pandas / Geopandas / Numpy; ARC extensions (Spatial Analyst, 3d Analyst, Spatial Statistics); AWS Experience; git experience
Dove Air is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws or our sensibilities.
We value diversity at Dove Air and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!
