GIS Lead

Back to jobsNewGIS LeadWashington, DCApply  The Nuclear Company is the fastest growing AI tech-enabled startup in the nuclear and energy space, pioneering a fleet-scale approach to building the next generation of nuclear reactors. Through our design-once, build-many model, we're accelerating the deployment of safe, reliable, and affordable nuclear energy. We operate with an AI-first mindset. Every employee is expected to leverage AI, technology, and the Nuclear Operating System (NOS) as integral components of their role to improve the quality, speed, and impact of their work. We expect every team member to continuously identify opportunities to automate workflows, enhance decision-making, improve processes, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of NOS as a strategic operating capability that enables The Nuclear Company to scale with excellence. We hire people who are driven by purpose, thrive in ambiguity, and are energized by building what has never been built before. Our team combines intellectual curiosity with high agency, embraces candid feedback and continuous learning, and holds themselves and others to exceptional standards. Our values—Transparency, Responsibility, Unity, Scrappiness, and Tenacity—guide how we hire, collaborate, and make decisions every day. They are not words on a wall; they are the standard by which we operate. TRUST is the foundation of our safety culture, fostering intellectual honesty, accountability, and open communication, while our values challenge every team member to execute with urgency, humility, resilience, and an unwavering commitment to our mission. About the role The Nuclear Company is hiring a Geospatial Data Management Lead to build TNC's geospatial program from the ground up. You report to the Head of AI Products & NOS and work across project development, environmental and licensing, NOS engineering, and the executive team. TNC runs nuclear megaprojects across multiple U.S. and international sites, and every project produces geospatial data: environmental surveys, site characterization, construction monitoring, EPZ mapping, land records, and regulatory submissions. Today that data is scattered across consultant drives and personal accounts with no owner and no standard. You are the first dedicated GIS hire: you set the standards, stand up the enterprise geodatabase, manage spatial data across all active projects, and produce the maps that go to the NRC, the board, and the communities where TNC builds. Responsibilities Own geospatial standards and governance. Write and maintain the TNC Geospatial Data Management Plan and the GIS Deliverables Specification that governs every consultant and contractor scope of work. Set geodetic standards, coordinate reference systems, and metadata templates, and enforce them across projects.  Build and run the enterprise geodatabase. Design the geodatabase structure (feature layer schemas, topology rules, domains, metadata) on the ESRI ArcGIS Online and Enterprise deployments, and the associated cloud infrastructure they are deployed on. Run the data acquisition program: identify, obtain, catalog, and QA every external dataset per project. Consultant data that fails QA goes back to the consultant.  Produce map products and regulatory submissions. Make the maps for NRC submissions (ESP, COL, EIS chapters), board and investor materials, and public meetings. Build the EPZ mapping toolkit (10-mile plume exposure pathway, 50-mile ingestion pathway). Build automated submission packaging (arcpy) that clips, reprojects, formats, attaches metadata, and generates manifests for NRC ADAMS upload.  Coordinate survey, imagery, and geodetic basis. Work with licensed surveyors to set the geodetic basis for each project and co-write the project geodetic standard. Manage satellite, aerial, and drone imagery acquisition, GCP coordination, processing, and geodatabase ingest. Coordinate BIM-GIS integration so construction models are georeferenced before modeling...