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Senior Software Engineer Geospatial

Ocient

Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 165000 - 190000

Posted: 11 November 2026 (4 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 8 February 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Ocient:

Ocient is building OcientAIQ a complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale for the organizations that cant afford to get AI wrong. Our customers protect networks secure nations and power the global economy. The problems we solve are genuinely hard and the work matters.

Founded in 2016 by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM in 2015) Ocient is headquartered in Chicago with a remote-first global team. We are a carbon-neutral company backed by leading investors including Greycroft OCA Ventures In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures.

Do not contact Ocient directly to apply for a role. For security purposes any applications received via email will be deleted.

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Geospatial

Location: 100% Remote (US Based Only)

We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas of any kind at this time*

Hiring Manager: Senior Engineering Manager

Estimated salary range: $165000 to $190000

The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidates experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Job Description:

Ocient has the deepest native geospatial surface in the analytical database market: 120 native geospatial functions all built on non-Euclidean spherical math against the WGS84 model of the earth rather than a flattened 2D projection. We store points linestrings and polygons natively as columns in SQL-accessible tables and we run spatial analysis at trillion-row scale on the full-resolution historical data our customers normally have to downsample or throw away.

We are as far as we know the only analytical database with native spatiotemporal operators that analyze space and time together directly in SQL rather than forcing two passes over the data. Trajectory and movement analysis that competitors push out to a separate system runs natively here against data at rest.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to extend that surface. This is a hands-on engineering role on a small team with a lot of surface area and you will own meaningful pieces of the geospatial engine end to end from spherical-math correctness to query performance at hyperscale.

What Youll Work On:

Core spatial engine. Extend and harden the 120 geospatial function library across accessors constructors measures predicates spatial operators spatial relationships transformations and parsers/formatters (WKT WKB EWKT GeoHash).
Spherical correctness. Work on the numerical correctness of non-Euclidean computation on both the spherical and spheroid WGS84 models: geodesics great-circle distance area on a sphere antimeridian and pole handling degenerate and near-degenerate geometries and precision behavior at very small and very large scales.
Performance and indexing at hyperscale. Make spatial predicates joins and range queries fast across trillion-row datasets: spatial indexing pruning and partitioning strategies bounding-volume acceleration vectorized evaluation and planner integration so spatial filters push down correctly.
Spatiotemporal analytics. Deepen the space-and-time operator set; trajectory reconstruction interpolation along linestrings over time and movement and co-location analysis.
Convergence with the rest of the engine. Help connect geospatial to Ocients other analytical surfaces spatial clustering accelerated nearest-neighbor search over geographic data and in-database ML so spatial and non-spatial analysis compose in a single query and not separate systems
Customer-driven scope. Geospatial shows up across the industries we target; telco (CDR and cell tower analysis) adtech (geo-targeting) and national security (ISR and movement analysis at scale). Youll work with Product and customer-facing teams to turn those workloads into engine capability.
Collaboration and craft. Write clear design docs tests and documentation so spatial behavior is explicit benchmarked and protected against regressions.

Ideal Qualifications:

5 years building production software systems including solid experience in C (or comparable systems-level work with a willingness to work primarily in C).
Solid grasp of computational geometry and critically spherical/geodetic geometry you understand why a great-circle distance is not a Pythagorean one and what breaks when you pretend otherwise.
Exposure to geospatial data standards or libraries: WGS84 and geodetic datums OGC/WKT/WKB GEOS S2 H3 PostGIS or equivalent.
Comfort with performance engineering such as profiling algorithmic optimization and reasoning about work at scale.
Strong instincts around numerical correctness and edge cases and the discipline to encode them in tests and documentation.
Ability to work across teams and codebases and turn ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions.

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have:

Experience implementing spatial indexing or spatial query optimization inside a database or query engine.
Background in trajectory analysis spatiotemporal data management or moving-object databases.
Experience with large-scale data systems analytical databases query planners or distributed execution.
Familiarity with in-database ML or with optimization and spectral methods applied to geographic problems
Domain experience in one of our target verticals such as telco network analysis adtech automotive/mobility aviation logistics or government/geospatial intelligence.

What Success Looks Like:

Ocients spatial function library stays the most complete and most accurate in the market and our lead widens rather than erodes.
Spatial queries that customers previously had to downsample pre-aggregate or move off-platform now run interactively at full resolution.
Spherical-math correctness is provable validated against reference implementations with edge cases documented rather than discovered by customers.
Spatiotemporal analysis becomes a capability we lead with in deals not a feature buried in the docs.

Interview Requirements: All interviews are conducted via video and require candidates to have their camera on for the duration of the session. The use of video filters face-altering effects or virtual backgrounds is not permitted for security and verification purposes.

We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Ocient is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed color religion sex (including pregnancy status) sexual orientation gender identity national origin or ancestry ethnicity citizenship status age physical or mental disability veteran status marital status parental status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process please contact for more information.

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