Senior Geospatial Engineer

About the role

XyloPlan builds physics-based, community-scale wildfire risk modeling and simulation tools. Our Fire Pathways Architecture helps fire agencies, insurance carriers, reinsurers, utilities, and municipalities understand and reduce wildfire risk at the parcel level. We are a seed-stage company preparing for Series A in Q4 2026.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain geospatial data pipelines that process terrain, vegetation, fuel, structure, and weather datasets
• Integrate diverse geospatial data sources (e.g LANDFIRE, parcel data, building data, roads, historic fires) into a unified processing framework
• Collaborate with the R&D team on physics-based fire spread simulation and the development of tooling for validation of geospatial outputs against observed fire behavior
• Support customer-facing deliverables including Vulnerability Assessments and Community Mitigation Plans
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions as the engineering team scales

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in geospatial engineering, GIS development, or spatial data science
• Strong proficiency in Python with geospatial libraries (GeoPandas, Rasterio, GDAL, Shapely)
• Experience with large-scale raster and vector data processing pipelines
• Familiarity with cloud-based geospatial infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Experience with PostGIS or similar spatial databases
• Demonstrated ability to work with messy, real-world geospatial datasets from multiple sources

Prioritized qualifications

• Experience with wildfire modeling, fire behavior simulation, or natural hazard risk assessment
• Background in remote sensing, LiDAR processing, or satellite imagery analysis
• Experience in an early-stage startup environment
• Knowledge of insurance or reinsurance industry data requirements
• Experience with React and front-end mapping libraries (e.g. Mapbox, ArcGIS, MapLibre)

Compensation

• Base salary: $160,000 - $190,000 (commensurate with experience)
• Equity: Stock option grant four-year vesting with one-year cliff
• Benefits: Health, dental, vision, unlimited PTO
• 401(k) available

Work model

• Remote within California or Colorado (required)
• Strong preference for candidates who can join weekly in-person work sessions at a coworking space in the Bay Area or Boulder area
• Occasional travel to customer sites and conferences (~10%)

Company information

XyloPlan is an equal opportunity employer.