Description
We are seeking an Imagery Scientist (SAR) to join our team in Alexandria, VA. The successful candidate will provide geospatial and imagery expertise and quantitative analysis to make recommendations that improve data curation and development in support of Machine Learning algorithm testing and evaluation.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Assist the SAR lead in conducting assessments of potential differences between new sensor characteristics and capabilities compared to currently utilised 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 standardise the data to match existing data standards or to be transformed into a usable state for labelling and model testing purposes.
- Leverage multi-INT data, with an emphasis on SAR, to curate imagery from the emergent sensors.
- Based on the characteristics and limitations of the emergent sensor, recommend curation strategies and identify data gaps to develop a diverse, representative dataset for Machine Learning model evaluation.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years as a SAR expert with understanding of collection, phenomenology, image formation process, and exploitation products.
- Experience with SAR imagery quality metrics and sensor metadata describing impacts of geometry on phenomenology.
- Exhibit experience exploiting SAR to determine the occurrence and location of objects of interest.
- Exhibit experience communicating with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences on availability and capabilities of SAR imagery products, methodologies, procedures, and algorithms to enhance analysis.
- Exhibit an understanding of the principles of remote sensing and imagery processing and advanced exploitation methods.
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field. Additional years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
- Active TS/SCI with ability to be approved for a Poly.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exhibit experience applying CV and machine learning (ML) techniques to SAR imagery and data to address intelligence problems.
Pay Range: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00