Python Developer

Senior Software Engineer – Python GIS

Location: Horten or Trondheim, Norway

Type: Full-time / Permanent

Division: Kongsberg Maritime – Maritime Simulation (K-Sim Products)

Join Us to Build the Digital Seas of Tomorrow

We're expanding our Model & Area Tooling Team, based on a major transformation effort

within Kongsberg Maritime’s Maritime Simulation (K-Sim) division.

We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers to help build next-generation tooling for modeling

simulation environments. If you are passionate about GIS, 3D content, and simulation

content development tooling, and want your work to contribute to safer and smarter

maritime operations worldwide, we’d love to hear from you.

Who We’re Looking For

We are looking for developers with a solid grasp of GIS fundamentals, 3D tooling

workflows, and an eagerness to build robust, user-friendly tools that help our content teams

deliver realistic, high-quality simulation environments.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of core tooling for GIS, 3D modeling, and terrain

generation together with other Senior Engineers in the team

• Define and maintain clean software architecture in a mixed Python / C# codebase

• Coach and support junior developers, product managers and consultants in the team

• Collaborate with UX designers, simulation experts, and 3D artists to deliver usercentric

solutions

• Continuously improve development workflows, documentation, and CI/CD practices

• Ensure performance, maintainability, and scalability of internal tools

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Python for tooling or automation

• Hands-on experience with GIS software such as QGIS or ArcGIS

• Knowledge of PostGIS and spatial data management

• Experience working with Blender for 3D asset processing and automation

• Familiarity with C#, especially for integration with existing simulation tools

• Solid understanding of coordinate systems, vector/raster data, and terrain

processing

Nice to Have

• Experience building plugins or add-ons for QGIS/Blender

• Familiarity with maritime or geospatial simulation tools

• Background in computer graphics or geospatial data visualization

• Knowledge of Unreal Engine pipeline integration (a plus)

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and maintain custom tooling for importing, editing, and optimizing GIS and

3D data

• Automate data pipelines between GIS sources, Blender, and our simulation

environments

• Improve and maintain legacy tools used to generate realistic ports, oceans, terrains,

and coastlines

• Work closely with simulation engineers, content creators, and hydrodynamics experts