Exploitation Specialist/Imagery Scientist
The SAR Geospatial Analyst shall 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.
Client: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Locations:
- Springfield, VA
- St. Louis, MO
- Denver, CO
Work Location: Onsite – Field Contractor Office
Salary: $210,000 – $220,000 (Based on experience and technical interview)
Citizenship: U.S. Citizen Required
Clearance: Active TS/SCI Required
Required Skills:
- 4+ years as a SAR expert with understanding of collection, phenomenology, image formation process, and exploitation products.
- Experience 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
Desired Skills:
- Exhibit experience applying CV and machine learning (ML) techniques to SAR imagery and data to address intelligence problems
Required Tasks:
- Assist the SAR lead in conducting assessment of potential differences between new sensor characteristics and capabilities compared to currently utilized 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 standardize the data to match existing data standards or to be transformed into a usable state for labeling and model testing purposes. This may involve converting between file format types or tiling full-size images into specified sizes or geospatial bounds.
Application Question(s):
· Willingness to work onsite in one of the 3 locations
Security clearance:
· Top Secret(SCI) (Required)
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- On-the-job training
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Pay: $210,000.00 - $220,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
