Principal Geospatial Software Engineer (Remote)

Date Posted:

2025-08-13

Country:

United States of America

Location:

RVA99: RTN Remote, Virginia

Position Role Type:

Remote

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance:

None/Not Required

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

Raytheon is seeking a Geospatial Software Engineer for the Next Gen Water Prediction Capability (NGWPC) program. The NGWPC program intends to build a scalable, operational-quality Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Framework, hydrologic and hydraulic model formulations, upgraded Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) capabilities, and an underlying enterprise hydrofabric used in operational National Water Model (NWM) and flood forecasting operations.  It is a cornerstone for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Water Prediction (OWP).

What You Will Do

• Travel to Dulles, VA facility as needed for customer activities.

• Lead and coordinate Enterprise Hydrofabric development activities.

• Architect, Design and develop scalable geospatial services in Python, leveraging formats such as STAC, Zarr, and GeoTIFFs.

• Design, develop and deploy geospatial data services to cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure computing environments running containerized applications.

• Participates in all phases of systems development, with emphasis on the programming, testing, documentation, and acceptance phases.

• Fosters the collaboration with the NOAA OWP to construct software and data products.

• Analyzes systems requirements and design specifications and performs database analysis, design, implementation, and testing.

• Performs technical and subject matter research on emerging technologies to determine impacts on application executions.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Cartography, GIS, Computer Science, or a related field and a minimum of 8 years of professional experience

• Experience with integrating high-resolution hydrographic, topographic, bathymetric, and/or channel shape data.

• Experience using geospatial datasets at enterprise scale.

• Experience with raster and vector data, coordinate reference systems (CRS), and/or common formats such as GeoTIFF, NetCDF, and/or COGs.

• Experience with the design and maintenance of a cloud optimized data dissemination platform supporting NextGen.

• Experience with geospatial libraries and tools including GDAL/OGR, GeoPandas, Xarray, and/or Zarr.

• Experience participating in large system and subsystem planning sessions and adhering to product build and release schedules and strategies.

Qualifications We Prefer

• Experience in creating and integrating hydrofabric geospatial representation of perceptual model with metadata.

• Experience in hydraulic modeling, remote sensing, GIS, environmental science, or related disciplines.

• Familiarity with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs/LSTMs), or other deep learning approaches for spatial data.

• Hands-on experience in software containerization deployment using Kubernetes, Singularity and/or Docker.

• Experience in collecting raw data and information from raw geospatially referenced data supporting NWM and FIM.

• Hands-on experience in R and Python languages.

• Experience with Agile/scrum, continuous integration and automated test frameworks and defining and analyzing risks and opportunities.

What We Offer

• Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.

• Not Relocation Eligible – Relocation assistance not available. 

Learn More & Apply Now!

Please consider the following role type definition as you apply for this role:

• Remote: This position currently is designated as remote. Employees who are working in remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home) but may be expected to travel to the site location as needed. The successful candidate for this role will be required to reside and work from one of the 50 U.S. states (excluding U.S. territories).

The salary range for this role is 101,000 USD - 203,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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