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Description

Role highlights:

• Role: Senior Geospatial Analytics Engineer

• Department: Solutions

• Location: Finland, Espoo or Valencia, Spain

• Reports to: Engineering Manager / Team Lead

• Employment type: Permanent / Full-time

• Working type: Hybrid

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)

The mission of the role

ICEYE’s Flood Solutions exist to help people make better decisions when floods happen. We strive to provide the most accurate information before, during and after the flood events.

You will be driving the analytics development within ICEYE Flood Solutions, ensuring we consistently turn multisource flood observations into one consistent flood extent and depth output that customers can trust in real conditions, including cloud cover, darkness, and other visibility-limiting environments.

The outcomes are customer deliverables that supports the full flood response lifecycle, for example:

• Early warning for flood prone areas

• Rapid situation awareness, so responders understand what is happening and where

• Search and rescue support, by highlighting areas likely to be impacted

• Damage assessment and claims workflows, by quantifying where flooding occurred and how severe it was

• Communication to affected residents or policyholders, with clear, explainable outputs

• Resource allocation, so response efforts go where they matter most

• Flood risk management, by improving the evidence base for future mitigation

Who We Are

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. This includes sovereign and turnkey ISR missions leveraging ICEYE’s world-leading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite technology, as well as access to data from the world’s largest SAR satellite constellation. These capabilities enable partners to detect and respond to critical changes anywhere on Earth with unprecedented speed and accuracy, day or night and in any weather.

Designed for dual use, the platform serves defense, intelligence, and security users, and also civil protection and commercial users for natural catastrophe intelligence, insurance, maritime monitoring, and finance.

ICEYE operates internationally with offices in Finland, Poland, Spain, Japan, the UAE, Greece, and the US. The company has more than 900 employees, inspired by the shared vision of improving life on Earth by becoming the global source of truth in Earth Observation.

Requirements

If you like turning messy real-world signals into something decision-makers can act on, you will like this role.

Floods are complex. Inputs are uncertain, terrain data quality varies, and customers still need answers under time pressure. The work is to turn multi-source observations into outputs that are accurate enough for decision-making, with clear confidence and known limitations.

This role is for someone who wants real ownership. You will shape the product's analytical direction and ship improvements into production, not just prototypes.

You will have a leading role in the analytical content of the Flood Solutions roadmap in partnership with Product Management and the team’s technical leadership.

You are accountable for:

• analytical correctness and validation

• clear and repeatable acceptance criteria for good enough

• production readiness and output consistency

• improving supportability and reducing recurring operational friction

Must-haves

• Expertise in hydrology, geosciences, geography, or a related geospatial field, with proven ability to analyze and understand complex, real-world spatiotemporal systems.

• Senior-level experience delivering production-grade systems (typically 7+ years or equivalent)

• Strong Python skills, and experience making analytics production-grade (tests, reproducibility, performance, failure handling)

• Practical geospatial competence: you possess sufficient remote sensing (SAR, optical) and geoinformatics knowledge, you know your way around rasters and vectors formats, CRS concepts, and you know how to ship geospatial deliverables (GeoTIFF, GeoPackage/GeoJSON/GeoParquet) with clear metadata

• Experience owning quality criteria and validation for analytics-heavy products, including uncertainty and confidence communication

• Product thinking: you can connect user needs and operational constraints to analytical choices and acceptance criteria

• Operational mindset: you design for resilience, ‘debuggability’, and supportability, and you improve systems based on incidents and real use

• Office collaboration: you welcome working 3 days per week in the Espoo office and you thrive in direct collaboration

Nice-to-haves

• Flood modelling, flood forecasting or other natural catastrophe analytics experience

• Geospatial Machine Learning experience

• AI leverage with judgment: you use tools like Cursor, ChatGPT, or Claude Code to speed up routine work, you know how to provide context and constraints to LLMs, and you verify outputs properly

• Experience scaling geospatial delivery (versioning, schemas, APIs, secure delivery)

• Familiarity with geospatial and Earth observation standards used for interoperability and scalable data access, for example STAC, OGC APIs, and Zarr

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code in a product team context

• Experience in insurance sector, risk modelling or disaster response related to floods

Application Process

• TA screen

• Hiring manager interview

• Panel interview

• Task presentation

• Department lead interview

• SVP of Solutions interview
  

Working at ICEYE

At ICEYE, you’ll join a diverse and highly engaged team united by the ambition to make the impossible possible. As a global scale-up, we combine speed and ambition with the opportunity to take real ownership from day one. Your growth, wellbeing, and success are a priority, with continuous professional development, training opportunities, and a culture where collaboration is how we win.

How We Work (Our Values)

Make the impossible possible: We set ambitious goals and stay calm under pressure. We bring grit, optimism, and ownership when things get hard, and we keep moving until we find a way.

• Be curious: Go deep, ask questions, listen carefully, and think critically. Understand the “why” behind decisions.

• See the big picture: Stay close to what’s happening across the company so you can make better decisions. Consider how your work affects others.

• Drive effective teamwork: Create psychological safety, invite different perspectives, and build inclusive teams. There are no bad questions.

• Act as one team: We win together. We match tasks to the right owner and stay agile as priorities shift.

• Have fun: What we do matters—and it should be enjoyable. Celebrate progress, take pride in results, and share the wins.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to support your health and wellbeing, at work and beyond. We keep improving them based on employee feedback, and offerings vary by location. Talent Acquisition will confirm what applies for this role and location during the process.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We want ICEYE to be a place where people can be themselves and do great work. Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger, which is why we work to create an environment where people feel included, respected, and able to speak up. Whatever your background, we want you to bring your authentic self to the table.

We’re committed to fair, inclusive hiring and equal opportunity. Everyone is welcome to apply. If you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, tell us—we’ll do our best to help.

Apply now to start your ICEYE journey, and help us continue to make the impossible possible together. Read more about ICEYE and working with us at www.iceye.com.