SAR Image Scientist

Responsibilities

Seeking a motivated Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR) IMAGE SCIENTIST. Join a skilled, highly respected and long-standing team supporting product quality mission. This is a unique opportunity to enhance your career by working with the community subject matter experts, directly with the customer, and with project autonomy not customarily given as a government contractor. Based on the priorities of the customer, the image scientist will support product evaluations, quality studies, new product initializations, product algorithm assessments, or develop image quality equations to quantify the expected quality of a system given various parameters. Candidate should have a working understanding and practical application of modeling components of the image path to include sensor, detector, atmospheric, and material properties. Simulation and modeling experience and ability to develop algorithm description documentation for software development is needed. Familiarity with current GEOINT systems, products and development, as well as the exploitation software packages will be necessary to develop test and verification methodologies. The candidate will work within an existing team to complete tasks as prioritized by government customers. Good communication and teamwork is necessary. A history of delivering results is critical to success.

The specific sub-tasks and activities to be performed 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 desired 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

Qualifications

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Required Experience/Education:

• Must have a minimum of a Top Secret clearance and willing to upgrade clearance to TS/SCI and sit for and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- Contract requires TS/SCI with poly.
• Degree in Image Science, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related field
• 5+ Years of experience with a BS/BA, or 3+ Years of experience with an MS/MA
• Experience working with imagery and complex products collected with SAR imaging platforms
• Image processing and Digital Signal processing experience
• Image chain analysis to include sensor modeling, signal quality and noise, detectors, detector calibration, and complex processing image formation.
• Experience developing engineering code (C, Python, Matlab, IDL) to solve hard problems and create processes for repeatable results.
• Application of error estimation.
• 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
• Willingness to learn, solve problems and perform 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, specifically the exploitation of SAR imagery and complex data products.
• Experience working in a DoD or IC operational environment
• Understanding and application of image quality standards (e.g. NIIRS), scales, metrics and image quality equations.
• Significant applied knowledge of sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes
• Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle to include independent testing and data verification

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.