Senior Image Scientist, PIR & Multispectral Analytics

NCSL International; Charlottesville, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Health Savings Account with company

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

401k with company match

Training and Development

Employee events

Job summary

GRVTY in Charlottesville, Virginia seeks an Image Scientist - Senior (PIR) to lead multidisciplinary teams across Persistent Infrared collection, data exploitation, and technical intelligence production. You will shape requirements, design analyses, develop pipelines, and brief senior decision-makers while advancing concept-to-operations transitions and coordinating with government partners.

This role requires an active Top Secret clearance and 8+ years of relevant experience; deep PIR

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• 8+ years of directly relevant experience.
• Deep knowledge of PIR collections, tasking, and exploitation.
• Experience leading collection campaigns or complex analyses.
• Ability to mentor analysts and contribute to technical strategy.

Responsibilities

• Support PIR collection planning, tasking, and data exploitation.
• Develop repeatable workflows for data conditioning and analysis.
• Produce technical assessments and briefings for senior decision-makers.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for follow-on collection or experimentation.
• Collaborate with government customers, engineers, and mission partners.

Skills

PIR knowledge

Technical leadership

Analytical thinking

Education

Graduate degree preferred

Tools

Data processing pipelines

Job description

GRVTY in Charlottesville, Virginia seeks an Image Scientist - Senior (PIR) to lead multidisciplinary teams across Persistent Infrared collection, data exploitation, and technical intelligence production. You will shape requirements, design analyses, develop pipelines, and brief senior decision-makers while advancing concept-to-operations transitions and coordinating with government partners.

This role requires an active Top Secret clearance and 8+ years of relevant experience; deep PIR