Principal Research Scientist

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for tasks and multiple technical area programs.
• Work with teams to research, design, and develop sensor exploitation systems including signal processing, automatic target recognition (ATR), and target signature modeling.
• Develop ATR algorithms using Python, MATLAB, C++, and other languages for real world applications.
• Leverage state-of-the-art AI/ML tools and methods to improve performance of ATR systems.
• Rapidly and iteratively implement new algorithms to address new challenges.
• Collaborate with our customers to address challenging mission requirements by researching and developing new capabilities as well as making improvements to existing systems.
• Develop performance models and algorithms for new and/or existing target recognition solutions.
• Perform high-level software development functions using Python, PyTorch, C++, MATLAB, Java or similar languages including design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs.
• Collaborate with other experts within the program and in the user community to design, develop, and debug existing software, and to design and develop enhancements that incorporate new capabilities into various components of the existing systems.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical solutions to coworkers, teammates, and customers.
• Familiarity with common machine and deep learning packages such as Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, etc.
• Experience developing computer vision applications.
• Strong programming ability in Python and/or C/C++ for Linux and windows environments.
• Significant experience with Python and MATLAB.
• Familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Strong background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or data science.
• Experience presenting technical/scientific literature and presentations to customer stakeholders, conferences and/or community workgroup meetings.
• Experience contributing to business development activities including proposal writing and capture management support.
• Possess an active SECRET clearance or higher, with an ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance.
• US citizenship required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Automatic Target Recognition algorithm development.
• Experience working with monostatic or bi-static Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and/or Synthetic Aperture Lidar (SAL) data and sensor systems.
• Experience with multi-sensor data fusion.
• Background with multi-static radar research and development.
• Familiarity with GitLab and/or Jira - issue tracking and agile project management, or similar tools.
• Experience using AFSIM and successful completion of AFSIM training.
• Previous experience developing sensor exploitation algorithms such as Combat Identification (CID), tracking, detection, fusion, or pattern of life algorithms and/or models.
• Strong understanding of statistics.