Senior Geospatial Data Scientist; Address and Geocoding

Company Overview

At Cotality, we are driven by a single mission—to make the property industry faster, smarter, and more people‑centric. We provide property intelligence with unmatched precision, depth, breadth, and insights across the entire ecosystem, leveraging a global network to drive the largest asset class in the world.

We are looking for a Product Engineer to advance our flagship geocoding product, a core service that supports all property and location intelligence offerings and serves billions of requests each month.

You will join a cross‑functional set of product managers, data scientists, software engineers and architects focused on best‑in‑class address standardization and geocoding services.

• Build robust systems to handle the nuances of US addressing, including rural routes, high‑rise secondary units, fractional addresses, non‑postal locations, multiple valid address representations, and vanity address components.
• Innovate mechanisms to transition geolocation precision from areal (e.g., Postal, Census centroids) to specific (e.g., Parcel, Rooftop centroids) to differentiated (e.g., Front Door, Loading Dock, Drop‑Off Points).
• Develop validation loops using multiple contributor sources to verify that geocoded points link to other terrestrial datasets.
• Evaluate and benchmark third‑party geocoding services (Google, Mapbox, Overture Maps, etc.) against in‑house builds.
• Evolve automated confidence‑scoring systems to measure and report on the “health” of addressing and geocoding data over time.
• Ideate, iterate, and implement enhancements to unlock higher accuracy, explainability, and currency.
• Perform hands‑on experimentations with modern open‑source, cloud‑native geospatial tools and collaborate to bring features from idea to production.
• Work with data acquisition to evaluate vendor data and ensure best‑in‑class usage while remaining competitive.
• Drive awareness and education of address hygiene internally and externally to customers.

• Mastery of USPS CASS/NCOA processes, TIGER data, and the nuances of the US postal system.
• Experience with commercial and publicly available road network datasets.
• Knowledge of US land parcel data and its relationship to addresses.
• Census data.
• 5+ years of relevant experience.

• Prototyping and demonstrating ideas through hands‑on coding in a Jupyter‑notebook‑oriented environment.
• Python and SQL coding skills.
• Geospatial/address/routing expertise with Python libraries.
• Knowledge of GIS libraries such as Geopandas, Shapely, Proj, Kepler/pydeck, Libpostal, Valhalla.
• Experience with spatial data formats: legacy shape files and modern formats such as GeoJSON, Geo Parquet, FGB.
• PostGIS spatial SQL.
• GDAL command‑line tools.
• QGIS.
• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON structures, Postman.
• Statistics fundamentals.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work history.
• Experience with a Big Data stack such as Apache Spark.
• Cloud‑based spatial analytics platforms such as Carto.
• Geospatial pattern matching/recognition algorithms.

Annual Pay Range: 93,200 – 115,000 USD

• Generous PTO and 11 paid holidays, plus well‑being and volunteer time off.
• Up to 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave and a baby stipend.
• Multiple medical plan options with mental health and wellness support.
• 401(k) with company match and vesting after one year.
• $400 annual well‑being stipend and tuition assistance up to $5,250.
• Recognition rewards, referral bonuses, exclusive discounts, and more.

Cotality is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting and retaining the best‑qualified people available, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability or status as a veteran of the Armed Forces, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Cotality maintains a Drug‑Free Workplace.

Cotality is fully committed to a work environment that embraces everyone’s unique contributions, experiences and values. We offer an empowered work environment that encourages creativity, initiative and professional growth and provides a competitive salary and benefits package. We are better together when we support and recognize our differences.