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Springfield, VA
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
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Job Description
MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior SAR Imagery Scientist to join our team in Springfield, VA. This is a full-time onsite position.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Clearance Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience; BA can account for 4 years while a MA/MS can account for 6 years of experience.
- 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
- 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
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience applying CV and machine learning (ML) techniques to SAR imagery and data to address intelligence problems
Clearance Requirements:
- An active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods while performing imagery analysis and reporting.
- Must be able to occasionally move about the work area to collaborate with team members and access mission systems.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with co-workers, management, and customers to exchange accurate information and present analytic findings.
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