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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # GIS Specialist - **Company:** DRONESTITUTE LLC - **Location:** Lafayette, LA, United States - **Salary:** $45,000.0 - $75,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** 3d Models, Geographic Information Systems, ArcGIS (Software), Command-Line Interface, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Quantum GIS (QGIS), Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Surface Modeling - **Published:** July 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f4b5f8d2c52b0b02 ## About the Role * Working experience with photogrammetry software and engines (Pix4D, Agisoft Metashape, OpenDroneMap, RealityCapture, or equivalent). * Working experience with GIS software (QGIS, ArcGIS, or equivalent). * Comfort with coordinate reference systems, projections, and geospatial file formats. * Scripting and command-line proficiency. Python preferred. Comfort working in cloud environments. * Experience tuning a photogrammetry pipeline for throughput, cost, or quality - and being able totalk about what you changed and what it improved. * Strong attention to detail and the patience to QC your own work. * Clear written communication for documentation and post-mortems. Helpful but not required: point-cloud processing, mesh and texture optimization, FAA Part 107, contributions to open-source photogrammetry tooling. ## Description We are hiring a Photogrammetrist / GIS Specialist to make our processing pipelines faster, more accurate,and more reliable - and to produce the deliverables that come out the other end. What you'll do * Run drone imagery through our existing photogrammetry pipelines and deliver orthophotos, digital surface models, point clouds, and 3D models that meet our quality standards per product line. * Improve those pipelines. We have our own dispatch logic, job queues, and cloud-compute orchestration - we want someone who can identify where they are slow, fragile, or producing inconsistent results and help us make them better. * Tune processing parameters across product types so we get predictable outputs with less manual intervention. * Quality-check outputs after processing - geometric accuracy, color balance, completeness -before they reach the customer. * Maintain coordinate-system discipline across every deliverable so our outputs line up cleanly with customer base maps and downstream tools. * Document the pipeline so the next person on the team understands how it works and how to extend it. What we expect * Geospatial accuracy is the standard. Customers act on what you produce. * An engineering mindset for the pipeline. You measure throughput, failure rates, and quality drift, and you propose specific improvements. * Honest reporting on what the data supports and what it does not. 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