Overview
Are you an experienced software developer who is passionate about creating value, someone who is eager to push boundaries to constantly improve the product you are working on? You'll work in a highly collaborative environment where innovation and creativity are embraced. If you're excited about the potential of technology to transform industries and improve lives, we invite you to join our dynamic team!
We are on a mission to develop cutting-edge software solutions that empower users to harness the full potential of 3D data. You'll have the opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented individuals who are committed to pushing boundaries and driving advancements in the geospatial industry. Together, we create software that meets the needs of our users and contributes to social and environmental progress.
Join us, and be part of a culture that values curiosity, growth, and collaboration. Your expertise will help shape the future of our products and the experiences of our growing community of users. Let's embark on this exciting journey together!
What we offer
- Responsibility and impact
- Passionate and supportive working culture
- Flat hierarchies
- Emphasis on team and personal growth through personal coaching and staff development events
- Strong focus on company culture: appreciative, compassionate communication, enabling and embracing diversity
- High-profile team that is driven by the pursuit of excellent results
- Active ambition to become a technology leader in 3D reconstruction technology
- Well-appointed office environment and equipment in the center of Stuttgart
- Part of Esri, a global organization based in California focused on GIS and spatial analytics to enable global change
- Attractive compensation including benefits like public transport, leased e-bikes, and fitness
Who we are
We are an international team of young and enthusiastic individuals passionate about creating professional photogrammetry software and providing value for our customers. Embracing a high diversity of skills and cultures, curiosity and an urge for excellence drive us. Municipalities and leading companies in the mapping industry use our unique technology for countrywide data production. We have built a strong reputation in the market for us, this is just the beginning. Facing an evolving market and many fascinating technological challenges, we need your expertise to help us reach the next level.
The Esri R&D center-Stuttgart develops the software technology, Reality Engine, which is used worldwide to reconstruct 3D surface models from images and lidar. As one of the leading solutions in this domain, it focuses on high accuracy and large-scale applications such as aerial mapping of entire cities and countries. The resulting data empowers various applications in areas such as smart cities, infrastructure, 5G planning, change detection, environment monitoring, cadaster mapping, or VR.
In our software development, we focus on solving our users needs and follow research trends to deliver impactful reality capture software. Our development language for the Reality Engine is usually cross-platform C++, as scalability and performance are important in our engineering work to process massive datasets efficiently on workstations, computing clusters, or cloud infrastructures.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate in a team to create industry-leading software for 3D reconstruction from images and lidar, scene understanding as well as visualization solutions
- Develop scalable, high‑performance software that enables cutting‑edge social and environmental innovation, including global monitoring applications powered by GIS
- Build the product to process Images, Point Clouds, Textured Meshes and Gaussian Splats at scale using high performance computing techniques and GPU acceleration
- Drive advancements in state‑of‑the‑art algorithms across computer vision, photogrammetry, machine learning, and computer graphics
- Shape the product vision and technical direction for a rapidly growing community of reality‑capture users
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in writing production code with expert level C++ skills (modern C++ standards, performance optimization)
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex software components in production environments
- Demonstrated ability to research, design, implement, test, debug, and work efficiently in large, shared codebases
- Eagerness to continuously grow in team communication and selfleadership - with desire to mentor o Interest in the geospatial industry
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Geomatics Engineering, or a related field
- Fluent English speaker (German is a plus)
- Existing work authorization for Germany
Recommended Qualifications
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with/affinity for 3D data
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Geomatics Engineering, or a related field
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The Company
At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every employee can contribute to their life's best work. Our commitment to these principles extends to the global communities we serve by creating positive change with GIS technology. For more information on Esri's Racial Equity and Social Justice initiatives, please visit our website here.
If you don't meet all of the preferred qualifications for this position, we encourage you to still apply!
Esri is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this e-mail address.
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