Benefits:
401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Paid time off
Position: Image Scientist Location: St. Louis, MO Clearance: Top Secret or above
Roles & Responsibilities: Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Sensor modeling: decomposing product formation elements to quantify the overall quality of the image chain.
Algorithm assessment to quantify the performance of a product given desire mission application.
Performing baseline assessment of system performance to support sensor initialization.
Operational monitoring of system performance over time
Responding to detected errors and artifacts by recommending possible causes and corrective actions
Required Education and Experience:
Bachelor or advanced degree in Image Science, Optics, Engineering, or Applied Physics
5+ years of experience working with electrical-optical, RADAR, LIDAR, hyperspectral and/or multispectral imaging platforms.
Image processing and digital signal processing experience
Image chain analysis to include atmospheric modeling, signal quality and noise, optics, detector calibration, and image processing of pixel data.
Applied knowledge of sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes
Understanding of data processing and statistics
Strong written and oral communication skills, with emphasis on briefing to obtain decisions and solve technical issues and test plans/reports writing.
Ability to work independently as well as part of a team in a dynamic work environment.
Track record of delivering results.
Preferred Skillset:
Knowledge of National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, and dissemination (TCPED) image chain.
Understanding and application of image quality standards (e.g., NIIRS), scales, metrics, and image quality equations.
Experience working in a DoD or IC operational environment.
Experience developing engineering code (C, Python, MATLAB, IDL) to solve hard problems and create processes for repeatable results.