Computational Imaging Engineer
MITRE · McLean, VA · 3 wk ago
Engineering$104k–$130k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes introductory paragraphs about MITRE, department summary, roles & responsibilities, basic qualifications, preferred qualifications, salary compensation range, work location type (Onsite). Also benefits info: "Benefits information may be found here." Not specific benefits, so we should not create Benefits section because no specific benefits listed. Pay section: we have salary compensation range and midpoint: $103,600 - $129,500 - $155,400. So we can include Pay section with that info. Schedule: "Annual Work Location Type: Onsite Commitment to Non-Discrimination..." Actually schedule not given; they mention "This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site". That's schedule info: onsite requirement. So we can include Schedule section with that detail. Also we have "Work Location Type: Onsite". So schedule: onsite, minimum 4 days a week on-site.
We need headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we should only include sections that have real specific content. Let's map:
- About the role: could be the introductory paragraph describing MITRE and department summary. That's substantive. So we can have
About the role
with paragraphs. - Responsibilities: from "Roles & Responsibilities:" section. So include that. - Requirements: could be Basic Qualifications? Or we could separate Basic Qualifications as Requirements, and Preferred Qualifications as Qualifications? The instruction: Use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what goes where. Likely: - Requirements: Basic Qualifications (must-haves) - Qualifications: Preferred Qualifications (nice-to-haves) - Skills: maybe combine technical skills from both? But we could also put skills under Requirements/Qualifications. However we should not create thin sections. If we have both Requirements and Qualifications with content, that's fine. Skills maybe we can omit if not distinct. - Benefits: we have no specific benefits, only link. So we should omit Benefits section. - Pay: we have salary range. - Schedule: we have onsite requirement. Thus output sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Pay, Schedule. We need to use- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for Responsibilities, we can list bullet points. For Requirements (Basic Qualifications) we can list bullet points. For Qualifications (Preferred) bullet list. For Pay maybe just a paragraph. For Schedule maybe a paragraph.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate like EEO, accommodation, copyright, etc. Also remove duplicated lines.
Let's extract content.
Introductory paragraphs:
"At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future."
Department Summary: "MITRE Technology and Engineering inspires breakthroughs in applied science and advanced technology to transform the future of U.S. scientific and economic leadership. Our goal: innovation from sea to space to support our mission of serving in the public interest. In addition to executing on a rich set of challenges through the six Federal Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) that MITRE operates on behalf of its sponsors, MITRE Technology and Engineering works with broader federal, state, and local government to develop robust partnerships with industry and academia to drive impact in the public interest. In support of this mission, MITRE Technology and Engineering operates several Innovation Centers which focus on various technologies. The Emerging Technologies Innovation Center (ETIC) focuses on emerging technologies that can provide transformational solutions to MITRE sponsors in the mid to long-term. The Chemical and Optical Sciences (CH&OS) Department within ETIC provides innovative solutions to address new opportunities and challenges associated with these and other novel emerging technologies. The CH&OS Department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers, requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interest in current and emerging technologies across its diverse employees."
We can combine these into About the role.
Roles & Responsibilities:
"The CH&OS department is seeking a Computational Imaging Engineer who can work across disciplines, providing expertise in computer vision, numerical analysis, optical laboratory experimentation, and machine learning, with a particular focus on processing and analysis of large image-based datasets. Additional tasking may include work in camera calibration and integration, computer vision algorithm development, and integration of new and existing sensing solutions in support of related data collection efforts."
We can break into bullet points:
- Work across disciplines, providing expertise in computer vision, numerical analysis, optical laboratory experimentation, and machine learning, with a focus on processing and analysis of large image-based datasets.
- Camera calibration and integration.
- Computer vision algorithm development.
- Integration of new and existing sensing solutions in support of related data collection efforts.
Basic Qualifications:
List:
- Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of related experience or a master’s degree
- Degree in Physics, Engineering, or a related field
- Training, understanding, and research experience in optics, machine learning and image processing
- Research experience in computer vision, particularly related to data classification and analysis of large datasets
- Experience and interest in laboratory experimentation, including experimental design, experience with camera systems, optical alignment, and microscopy
- Ability to evaluate technologies objectively, identify critical technical risks, and communicate both the potential and limitations of emerging capabilities
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including experience preparing technical reports, proposals, decision briefings, and presentations for technical and nontechnical audiences
- Ability to work with a team to address government challenges
- Ability to think critically and be proactive in pursuing research and problem-solving
- Expertise in scientific computing languages, including Python and MATLAB
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance.
- Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
- This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in photogrammetric data analysis, and design/buildout of photogrammetry pipelines
- Experience processing LiDAR data and algorithm development related thereto
- Expertise in Fourier analysis, Fourier optics, gaussian mixture modeling, and/or unsupervised machine learning
- Active Secret security clearance
Also note: "This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s): None" and "This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s): Secret". That's basically same as must be eligible to obtain Secret clearance. We can incorporate.
Salary compensation range and midpoint: $103,600 - $129,500 - $155,400
Annual Work Location Type: Onsite
We also have "This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site" already in Basic Qualifications; we could also put in Schedule.
We need to avoid duplication. We'll keep the onsite requirement in Schedule section, and maybe remove from Basic Qualifications to avoid duplication? But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we can keep it in both places but better to avoid duplication. The instruction: remove duplicated lines. So we should not duplicate the same sentence. We'll keep the onsite requirement in Schedule section, and maybe remove from Basic Qualifications. However the Basic Qualifications includes that line; we could keep it there and not duplicate in Schedule, but we need Schedule section. We could put schedule info in Schedule section referencing the requirement. Since it's already in Basic Qualifications, we could still include it there and also have Schedule section with same info? That would be duplication. Better to move it to Schedule and remove from Basic Qualifications. But we must preserve all substantive information; moving is fine as long as it's present somewhere. So we will omit the onsite line from Basic Qualifications and put it in Schedule.
Thus Basic Qualifications list will exclude that line.
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "Benefits information may be found here." We'll omit Benefits section.
Also remove EEO, accommodation, copyright, etc.
Now construct HTML.
We'll start with
About the role
then paragraphs. We need to preserve the content exactly, but we can split into paragraphs for readability. Ensure we don't lose any info. Let's craft About the role paragraph(s): Paragraph 1: At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future. Paragraph 2: Department Summary: MITRE Technology and Engineering inspires breakthroughs in applied science and advanced technology to transform the future of U.S. scientific and economic leadership. Our goal: innovation from sea to space to support our mission of serving in the public interest. In addition to executing on a rich set of challenges through the six Federal Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) that MITRE operates on behalf of its sponsors, MITRE Technology and Engineering works with broader federal, state, and local government to develop robust partnerships with industry and academia to drive impact in the public interest. In support of this mission, MITRE Technology and Engineering operates several Innovation Centers which focus on various technologies. The Emerging Technologies Innovation Center (ETIC) focuses on emerging technologies that can provide transformational solutions to MITRE sponsors in the mid to long-term. The Chemical and Optical Sciences (CH&OS) Department within ETIC provides innovative solutions to address new opportunities and challenges associated with these and other novel emerging technologies. The CH&OS Department serves as a vanguard for MITRE to meet the future needs of our customers, requiring technical excellence while encouraging creativity and fostering interest in current and emerging technologies across its diverse employees. We could combine into one paragraph but it's long; splitting is fine. Now Responsibilities:Responsibilities
- with li items.
Now Requirements:
Requirements
- with li items (basic qualifications minus onsite).
Now Qualifications:
Qualifications
- with li items (preferred).
Now Pay:
Pay
Salary compensation range: $103,600 - $129,500 - $155,400 (midpoint $129,500). Actually the range includes midpoint; we can state as given. Now Schedule:
Schedule
This position requires a minimum of 4 days a week on-site (onsite work location).
We should also mention Annual Work Location Type: Onsite. Could include. Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The line "Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance." and "Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S