* 4 + 4 + 4 month contract
* Geodesy / gravity / GNSS domain
* Baseline Security Clearance Required
Our client, a government agency responsible for geoscientific research, topography and satellite imagery, required the services of a GeodePy Software Engineer.
Duties of the GeodePy Software Engineer.
* Modernise AGRS tools & services & national adjustments by updating legacy dependencies, improving security, introducing automated unit tests, standardising documentation, ensuring consistent outputs across platforms such as AWS & NCI & improving maintainability across tools including DynAdjust, GDA2020, GeodePy, rdsinex, sinex2epoch, ANUBIS, & other utilities;
* Uplift existing gravity gridding & geoid modelling code into a robust, operational pipeline environment in NCI.
Skills and Experience Required
* Demonstrated experience modernising & maintaining (e.g. Python, C++ based) scientific or geospatial software, including refactoring legacy code while preserving numerical outputs;
* Expertise with CMake/Make for building & deploying C/C++ applications;
* Experience with python packaging tools such as pip & related ecosystems; parallelisation & vectorisation techniques (e.g., OpenMP, multithreading); memory & I/O performance tuning; & hands‑on use of high‑performance numerical libraries including BLAS, LAPACK, Eigen, SciPy, and NumPy;
* Experience in running scientific workflows and parallel processing workloads on both NCI & AWS.
Desirable criteria
* Geodesy / gravity / GNSS domain exposure. Any experience with geodesy, gravity, geoid modelling, GNSS processing, reference frames, or similar numerical geospatial domains;
* Software release practices. Experience packaging and releasing tools (versioning, semantic release, changelogs, artifact publishing) & maintaining stable, traceable releases.
How to Apply
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Please note that applications close on Friday the 27th of March 2026 at 11am. Recruitment Hive welcome late applications to be considered for future opportunities.
Job ID: BC667008 | LH-05885
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