skywatch

SkyWatch provides a geospatial data platform that enables users to access satellite imagery, aerial data, and drone imagery from multiple providers in one place. The company serves diverse industries such as agriculture, architecture and engineering, energy, oil and gas, forestry, media, mining, state and local government, and utilities, helping teams source, deliver, and integrate spatial data into their existing tools and workflows. Its platform features products like Explore for searching and purchasing data, Hub for organizational management, Map for GIS integration, Build for API access, and Connect for data providers to distribute archives. Additionally, SkyWatch utilizes artificial intelligence through its AI Data Advisor, which helps users describe problems in plain language to receive imagery recommendations, and builds AI agents designed to operate inside secure government and defence environments.

The open roles at SkyWatch indicate that the company is expanding its engineering teams into specialized domains, such as establishing an Ottawa-based engineering team focused on sovereign and defence platforms. The current open role is a Principal Defence Systems Engineer, which is a hybrid position located in Ottawa, Ontario. This role serves as the technical owner and first hire for the new team, with plans to build out an engineering group consisting of approximately six engineers and two continuously staffed co-op positions to deliver deployable, air-gapped, and accredited versions of the platform for government use.