Overstory
GIS QA - Contractor
Job Summary
The GIS QA contractor role involves reviewing geospatial data for accuracy and quality, supporting QA processes, and collaborating with engineering teams on GIS features. Candidates should be familiar with tools like QGIS, GitHub, and other productivity software, and possess excellent communication skills. The position requires managing multiple datasets, working effectively in a remote team, and maintaining high standards of quality and organization. It is a full-time, 6-month contract aimed at supporting Overstory’s mission to improve grid resilience and wildfire prevention through geospatial analysis.
Required Skills
Job Description
The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.
The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.
One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.
That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.
Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.
Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.
The role
As a GIS QA contractor at Overstory, you will be conducting GIS analysis, primarily reviewing geospatial data for accuracy and quality issues, supporting QA and finalization of customer product data, feeding back on Geospatial related bugs and customer issues and collaborating with the engineering team on GIS features and implementation.
In detail
You’ll spend most of your time working in QGIS and within our own product to conduct QA on the various different layers of data which make up our deliveries. You will work on multiple datasets in parallel, switching between them as you get blocked and ensuring the relevant stakeholders are kept updated. You’ll work with other QA Specialists on the team to plan and implement improvements to the QA processes and tools.
Skills
- You are familiar with GitHub, and tools such as Slack, Notion, Google Suite.
- Your written and verbal English communications skills are excellent, and you have empathy and understanding of different roles in the company.
- You manage your own time effectively, across multiple projects and occasionally under pressure, able to prioritize short and long term activities with a strategic approach.
- You are creative and curious and have strong attention to detail. You are well-organized, keeping many files in the right places and clear documentation up-to-date.
- You can talk to software engineers and data engineers. Teamwork is at your core.
- You have an eye for quality, your work is thorough, and you pay attention to both the small details and the larger picture.
- You are flexible and ready and able to learn new things, and able to quickly adapt to new working practices and technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience working with GIS data in public or private utility.
- Experience with Geospatial software such as QGIS.
- Experience with Python
- QA experience
- Knowledge about electric utilities
- Experience in a remote team
About you
- You are fluent in English.
- You have at least 2 years of relevant experience
- Teamwork is at your core, and you like to help others grow and succeed
Contract
- 40 hours per week - full time
- For a period of 6 months
About our team
We are a group of 85 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.
Diversity & Inclusion
We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.
We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.
Our values
Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.
We act with urgency.
Our curiosity fuels our growth.
We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
We’re rooted in diversity.
Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.
We care for each other.
We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.
Trust is fundamental.
We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.
Overstory
We help electric utilities optimize resources, mitigate vegetation risk, and future-proof their operations and maintenance programs for the growing climate and market challenges of our time. This intelligence helps ops teams direct pruning efforts to minimize the risk of wildfires and power outages across their network.
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