Engineer Senior Principal - EOIR Payload Calibration

About the role

The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead program-level calibration approaches and support architecture development for emerging EOIR remote sensing payloads.
• Develop and implement calibration solutions necessary to achieve EO/IR remote sensor performance.
• Analyze optical payload and sub-system data quality requirements and decompose as necessary to enable the related design, build, test, and verification activities.
• Formulate and execute radiometric, spectral, and other calibration strategies to achieve the required mission data quality.
• Develop and utilize expertise in remote sensing missions, payload design, component hardware technologies, calibration sources, calibration techniques, and uncertainty analysis.
• Investigate novel calibration approaches and propose internal or customer funded research and development projects.
• Create and manage physics-based calibration models and budgets.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines (systems, optical, mechanical, electrical, software, test, etc.) in the planning and execution of calibration tasks.
• Be a program’s calibration lead and interface and support its chief engineer and chief systems engineer.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers, management, and customers.
• Mentor other engineers within the company facing related challenges.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company.
• Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

Requirements

• BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 8 or more years related experience.
• Each higher-level degree, i.e., Master’s Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of experience.
• Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education.
• Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
• A current, active Top Secret/SCI security clearance is required.

Skills

• Experience with Matlab or comparable software.
• Excellent communication skills are essential, including the ability to understand the team’s needs, ask insightful questions, and provide clear communication of proposed solutions.
• Excellent presentation skills with experience presenting complex technical issues to independent experts and senior customer representatives.
• Flexibility and capacity to work on multiple dynamic problems simultaneously.