Exploitation Specialist/Imagery Scientist (EO) - Lead
The Imagery Scientist is the subject matter expert on their respective imagery modality (e.g., Electro-Optical). They shall provide technical direction and conduct the work necessary to acquire and prepare imagery of the necessary quality, standards, and requirements provided by the Government. Developed solutions should be informed by specific phenomenology limitations and advantages of the sensors and platforms in mind.
Client: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Locations:
- Springfield, VA
- St. Louis, MO
- Denver, CO
Work Location: Onsite – Field Contractor Office
Salary: $260,000 – $263,000 (Based on experience and technical interview)
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Required
Clearance: Active TS/SCI Required
Required Skills:
- 4+ years as an EO expert with understanding of collection, phenomenology, image formation process, and exploitation products.
- Exhibit experience exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum (e.g., electro-optical) to determine the occurrence and location of objects of interest
- Exhibit experience developing, testing, and evaluating new algorithms, processes, methodologies, and products using EO imagery including experience utilizing advanced processing tools (e.g., Python, MATLAB, Google Earth Engine, etc.) to automate scientific processes of EO imagery data to aid analysis.
- Exhibit experience communicating with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences on availability and capabilities of EO imagery products, methodologies, procedures, and algorithms to enhance analysis.
- Exhibit a deep understanding of the principles of remote sensing and imagery processing and advanced exploitation methods
Desired Skills:
- Exhibit experience applying CV and machine learning (W...) techniques to EO imagery
and data to address intelligence problems
Required Tasks:
- Conduct assessment of potential differences between new sensor characteristics and capabilities compared to currently utilized platforms
- Assess potential differences in metadata, data format, and data structure characteristics in regards to changes to databases, schemas, APis, and other ETL related processes for the ingestion and movement of data when integrating into the existing data operations pipeline
- Determine how to acquire new data, potential latency associated with acquisition, data formats, and security domains
- Determine how to pre-process and standardize the data to match existing data standards or to be transformed into a usable state for labeling and model testing purposes. This may involve converting between file format types or tiling full-size images into specified sizes or geospatial bounds.
- Investigate any gaps in the emerging sensor capability that may need to be supplemented by other sources
- Collaborate with SAR Imagery Scientist to provide coincident EO imagery. Provided EO coincident imagery should align with the areas and temporal windows of emerging sensor's collection.
Application Question(s):
· Willingness to work onsite in one of the 3 locations
Security clearance:
· Top Secret(SCI) (Required)
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- On-the-job training
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Pay: $260,000.00 - $263,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Location will be one of the following Springfield, VA, St. Louis, MO or Denver, CO
Experience:
- collection, phenomenology, image formation process: 4 years (Required)
Location:
- Springfield, VA 22150 (Required)
Security clearance:
Ability to Relocate:
- Springfield, VA 22150: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person
