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Karl Hill

Staff Aerospace Software Engineer Jacobs National Security

Karl Hill

Engineering Manager candidate. Currently leading ~10 engineers on aerospace mission software at Jacobs (ex-NASA Goddard).

  • NASA Goddard
  • ~10 engineers / ~20 repos
  • Washington, DC

01 — Selected Work

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Jacobs leadership chapter · NASA platforms you can open

Read case study: Engineering leadership for aerospace mission software Jacobs J logomark — brand panel for unpublished aerospace mission software.

Jacobs · 2025–present

Engineering leadership for aerospace mission software

Staff leadership for ~10 engineers across ~20 repositories: sequencing delivery under constraint, developing engineers, and holding the hard call when program urgency outruns readiness. Program specifics stay unpublished.

Read case study: Flood Mapping System Screenshot of Flood Mapping System

NASA · 2017–2025

Flood Mapping System

Mission-critical geospatial platform generating near-real-time flood inundation maps during active global disaster events. Architected the fully automated pipeline — from raw satellite sensor ingestion through geospatial product generation, dissemination, and integration with international emergency-management networks — engineered for fault tolerance and reliability when latency is measured in hours, not sprints.

Read case study: LAADS DAAC NASA LAADS Find Data — product, time, location, files, and review-and-order wizard for MODIS and VIIRS granules.

NASA · 2017–2025

LAADS DAAC

NASA’s Level-1 and Atmosphere archive: modernized Find Data search and order, the public LAADS portal, and LANCE near-real-time access for MODIS and VIIRS holdings. GitLab CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Perl services that had to keep distributing while the web systems changed.

02 — Next step

Three places that answer a hiring conversation. Start with the leave-behind, then the evidence, then a time on the calendar.

  1. 01

    Recruiter kit

    Bio, PDF, and canonical links — the leave-behind to forward.

  2. 02

    Selected work

    Jacobs leadership chapter and public NASA proof — scope first, then platforms.

  3. 03

    Book a conversation

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