QGIS Expert
$40 - $100/hourpay
Required Skills
QGIS
Geography
Mapping
Job Description
Job Title: QGIS Expert
Job Type: Contract
Location: Remote
Job Summary:
Join our customer's team as a QGIS Expert, where your deep expertise with QGIS will have a direct impact on the next generation of spatial analysis technology. This is a unique opportunity to not only showcase your mapping and project management abilities, but also contribute to teaching AI how top QGIS professionals think, reason, and solve complex spatial challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end projects in QGIS, from raw spatial data acquisition and cleaning to final map outputs and comprehensive deliverables.
- Document your workflow and reasoning in real-time as you perform data management, spatial analysis, and map production tasks.
- Organize, clean, and validate diverse spatial datasets, ensuring high accuracy and consistency throughout the process.
- Manage projections, coordinate systems, and spatial references to optimize data interoperability and output quality.
- Style and symbolize map layers for clarity, interpretability, and professional presentation in various contexts.
- Build advanced layouts and cartographic products, explaining your design decisions along the way.
- Troubleshoot issues and explain problem-solving strategies as they arise within QGIS workflows.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Extensive hands-on experience with QGIS, including managing full GIS projects independently.
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality spatial analyses, maps, and geospatial outputs using QGIS.
- In-depth understanding of spatial data formats, coordinate systems, projections, and related GIS principles.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical decisions and workflow rationale.
- Strong data organization, cleaning, and transformation skills within QGIS.
- Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex challenges in GIS workflows.
- Comfortable working remotely while maintaining consistent project documentation and communication with the broader team.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience documenting GIS processes for training, teaching, or AI research purposes.
- Background in mentoring or collaborating within multi-disciplinary GIS teams.
- Familiarity with integrating QGIS with other geospatial tools or programming languages.
About micro1
micro1 is a data engine that helps AI labs train foundational models and enterprises build AI agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments used to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations used to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings. Our data engine includes an AI recruiter agent that sources and vets domain experts, a data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data, and a pipeline performance system that ensures both quality and velocity.
Our goal is to have 1 billion people doing meaningful work by contributing their expertise to the development of frontier AI models. We’ve raised $40M+ in funding, and our AI recruiter has powered more than 1 million AI-led interviews as our global network of experts expands to form the human intelligence layer for AGI.