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# Data Scientist, Geospatial

- **Company:** NEARA LLC
- **Location:** Houston, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Data Analytics, Lidar
- **Published:** September 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/data-scientist-geospatial-neara-com-10155703

## About the Role

* 5+ years of hands-on experience in data science or machine learning. Geospatial data or power grid domain experience is a plus.
 * Strong quantitative intuition for data, with excellent communication skills and proven experience presenting complex findings to customers and senior leaders.
 * Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth scale-up technology environments is a plus.
 * Self-driven with a bias for action; comfortable taking full ownership of complex projects and adapting quickly to shifting priorities.
 * Natural collaborator who thrives at the intersection of technical teams (ML, Software) and external customer stakeholders.
 * Grounded, resourceful approach to problem-solving, with a track record of navigating messy, real-world datasets to deliver clear, business-driven outcomes.

## Description

We're looking for a Data Scientist, Geospatial to join our Houston team, supporting a key regional electric utility. You'll work directly with their team to build physics-backed models on Neara, leveraging complex datasets like LiDAR, GIS, asset records, and weather data. Your work will directly prevent wildfires by simulating vegetation encroachment, predict grid failures under extreme weather loads, and inform capital investment decisions to harden critical infrastructure.

What You Will Do:

 * Embed and collaborate directly with customer geospatial and GIS teams in a hybrid setting, spending time on-site at their offices to deeply understand their data workflows, integrate systems, and solve complex spatial challenges.
 * Build predictive risk models on Neara that combine LiDAR, terrain models, and weather data to simulate conductor sag, sway, and vegetation fall-in risks to directly prevent wildfire ignitions.
 * Translate complex spatial and structural risk metrics into defensible, data-driven insights that inform utility capital investment decisions for grid hardening.
 * Build and maintain robust spatial data pipelines to ingest, clean, vectorize, and integrate diverse geospatial data formats from our utility partner.
 * Establish QA/QC benchmarks for spatial accuracy, coordinate reference system (CRS) transformations, and structural alignment across disparate data sources.
 * Mentor others in best practices for model training, data analytics, and building data-driven products.


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