SAR Remote Sensing Engineer — ML & Real-Time Radar

Harmattan AI; Paris (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Harmattan AI is seeking a SAR Remote Sensing Engineer to lead end-to-end analytics design, real-time implementation, and field validation on SAR data. You will integrate ML models with multi-modal sensor feeds and collaborate with embedded/FPGA teams to move algorithms from prototype to production.

The role emphasizes rigorous engineering, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and travel to lab and field tests as needed.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, signal processing, applied mathematics or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in radar signal processing or SAR remote sensing.
• Deep understanding of SAR phenomenology and its information content, including coherence, amplitude, phase and polarimetry.
• Theoretical and practical expertise in machine learning, both deep learning and classical techniques.
• Experience taking at least one algorithm from prototype to real hardware running on real signals.
• Strong Python skills and sound engineering practices (Git, code reviews, testing, documentation).
• Exposure to GEOINT, ELINT or SIGINT work is a plus, and you are comfortable with defense security vetting.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives using SAR polarimetry and coherence for automated change detection.
• Design and prototype state-of-the-art machine learning models for SAR image segmentation.
• Develop algorithms for target detection and object classification on SAR data.
• Fuse SAR with optical, RF and other data sources to support GNSS-denied operations.
• Port algorithms from Python prototypes to real-time pipelines with software and embedded/FPGA teams.
• Build the capture, labelling and replay tooling that makes performance claims reproducible.
• Validate performance on simulated and real-world datasets, in the lab and on field-test campaigns.
• Work with radar, radio, electronic warfare and computer vision teams to define what the analytics layer needs from each sensor.

Skills

Python

Machine Learning

Radar signal processing

Software engineering

Education

Master’s or PhD in electrical engineering

Tools

Git

FPGA

Job description

Harmattan AI is seeking a SAR Remote Sensing Engineer to lead end-to-end analytics design, real-time implementation, and field validation on SAR data. You will integrate ML models with multi-modal sensor feeds and collaborate with embedded/FPGA teams to move algorithms from prototype to production.

The role emphasizes rigorous engineering, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and travel to lab and field tests as needed.