Senior Geospatial Data Scientist – Address, Geocoding

Cotality

Senior Geospatial Data Scientist responsible for improving geocoding product capabilities at Cotality. Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineers for best-in-class services.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeRemote • California, Florida, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $93,800 - $115,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

PostGISPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Play a strategic role in advancing the capabilities of Cotality’s flagship geocoding product.
Join a cross-functional team of product managers, geospatial data scientists, software engineers and architects engaged in the mission of providing best in class address standardization and geocoding services to our external and internal customers.
Build robust systems to handle the nuances of US addressing.
Innovate new mechanisms to transition geolocation precision from areal to specific.
Develop validation loops using multiple contributor data sources to verify geocoded points.
Evaluate and benchmark third-party geocoding services.
Evolve automated “confidence” scoring systems to measure and report on addressing and geocoding data over time.
Collaborate with the engineering team to take features from idea to production.
Work with in-house data acquisition team to evaluate data vendors.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Mastery of USPS CASS/NCOA processes, TIGER data, and the nuances of the US postal system
Experience of working with commercial as well as publicly available road networks datasets
US land parcel data and relationship to addresses
Census data
5+ years of relevant experience
Be able to prototype and demonstrate ideas through hands-on coding in a Jupyter notebook oriented environment
Python and SQL coding skills are a must
Emphasis on geospatial and address and routing focused on Python libraries Geopandas, Shapely, Proj, Kepler/Pydeck Libpostal Valhalla
Spatial data formats: Legacy formats such as shapefiles, Modern formats such as geojson, geoparquet, fgb
PostGIS spatial SQL
GDAL command line tools
QGIS
Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON structures, PostMan
Statistics fundamentals

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 offerings.
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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonSQLGeopandasShapelyProjKeplerLibpostalValhallaPostGISGDAL