Image Scientist

Image Scientist

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of a Top Secret clearance and willing to upgrade clearance to TS/SCI and sit for and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- Contract requires TS/SCI with poly.
• Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with Ph.D.
• 3+ years of experience working with electrical-optical, RADAR, LIDAR, hyperspectral and/or multispectral imaging platforms.
• Image processing and digital signal processing experience
• Image chain analysis to include atmospheric modeling, signal quality and noise, optics, detector calibration, and image processing of pixel data
• Applied knowledge of sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes
• Understanding of data processing and statistics
• Strong written and oral communication skills, with emphasis on briefing to obtain decisions and solve technical issues and test plans/reports writing
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team in a dynamic work environment
• Track record of delivering results
• Experience developing engineering code (C, Python, Matlab, IDL) to solve hard problems and create processes for repeatable results.

Responsibilities

• Support product evaluations, algorithm quality studies, new product initializations, or develop image quality equations to quantify the expected quality of an imaging system.
• Have a working understanding and practical application of modeling components of the image path to include sensor, detector, atmospheric, and material properties.
• Work within an existing team to complete tasks as prioritized by government customers.
• Develop test and verification methodologies.
• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED) image chain
• Understanding and application of image quality standards (e.g. NIIRS), scales, metrics and image quality equations.
• Experience working in a DoD or IC operational environment