Image Scientist / Physicist

Responsibilities

• Perform studies and analysis to characterize and improve the quality of remote sensing data.
• Cook up calibration planning by leading weekly payload calibration meetings, generating calibration handbooks, master schedules, data dissemination CONOPS, readiness plans, success criteria, and readiness review execution plans.
• Manage collaborative sites for calibration activities; create, populate, and maintain data repositories to allow distributed teams to access required data and collaborate on execution.
• Deliver and publish radiometric data, sensor characterization reports, and calibration task out briefs.
• Thoroughly analyze and report findings of calibration truth data, characterize and report accuracy.
• Maintain and update scripts, processes, and data required for calibration assessment and monitoring.
• Conduct analysis to validate test and transition of capabilities.
• Cook up future capabilities, requirements updates, and planning with external stakeholders.
• Monitor and assess enterprise product and data integrity.
• Lead independent enterprise investigations of anomalous product quality performance and produce analysis to expedite problem identification and resolution.

Qualifications

• Must be able to obtain and maintain TS/SCI w Poly.
• Required: Bachelor’s degree with 5–7 years of relevant experience, Master’s with 3–5 years, or PhD with 0–2 years in Image Science, Optics, Applied Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to perform technical analysis of EO remote sensing data; image processing and digital signal processing experience; image chain analysis.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills; demonstrated ability to clearly explain technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability and success working independently and in team environments.
• Customer focused and capable of representing the customer in user outreach, familiarity activities and community forums.
• Desired: Bachelor’s degree in Image Science, Optics, Applied Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering with 7 or more years of relevant experience, or master’s degree with comparable experience.
• Project management or leadership experience.
• Experience with one or more of PAN, IR, MSI, HSI, LIDAR, or RADAR systems and analysis.
• Experience developing/modifying engineering code in multiple of Python, MATLAB, ENVI/IDL or similar to solve hard problems and create processes for repeatable results.