GIS Developer

About FlightSafety International

FlightSafety International is the world’s premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom.

Purpose of Position

The position incorporates all facets of software development from communication, requirements assessment, research, design, development, testing, integration, peer review, documentation, maintenance, and end user support.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Create and maintain software for processing digital assets like terrain, imagery, vectors, and 3D models to empower our Modeling team. Design processes to improve their workflow efficiency and reduce errors. Build technology for the storage, transfer, conversion, and optimization of large data sets and their data formats relevant to the simulation, aviation, and geospatial industries. Examples of development areas include realistic terrain, sophisticated animation, high-resolution imagery, procedural content generation, and 2D / 3D content processing.

Minimum Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related degree.

Minimum Experience

• C++ / C# programming
• Proficiency in geospatial software development and / or geospatial formats
• Data structures and algorithms
• Software architecture and object-oriented design
• 3 plus years coding

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities