Senior ML Engineer, Radar & SAR: End-to-End ML Pipelines

Next Tier Concepts; Chantilly (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Next Tier Concepts in Chantilly, VA seeks an applied machine learning engineer to own radar and ML technical stack. The role spans radar/SAR simulation, ML model development, and compute infrastructure, with on-site Mon–Thu and remote on Friday.

Active TS/SCI clearance and US citizenship required. You will build end-to-end ML pipelines, manage data preprocessing, training, evaluation, packaging, and hand-off to software and hardware teams, while collaborating across RF and defense-focused

Qualifications

• Deep experience in SAR, non-imaging radar, remote sensing, or signal processing.
• Strong understanding of radar/SAR fundamentals including I/Q data and image formation.
• Proven ability to build end-to-end ML pipelines for radar tasks.
• Hands-on GPU compute with PyTorch, CUDA, and NVIDIA tooling.
• Ability to explain radar/ML concepts to non-radar engineers and document Deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical liaison across radar engineering, ML, software, and operations.
• Develop and maintain radar and SAR simulation pipelines with synthetic data.
• Design end-to-end ML models and packaging for deployment.
• Work with RF/hardware partners on radar code processing and productization.
• Configure local compute environments with GPU/remote compute and containers.
• Support ML inference/training on constrained hardware (RFSoCs, FPGAs).
• Create technical deliverables, APIs, data schemas, and documentation.
• Contribute to SBIR proposals and system documentation.

Skills

Synthetic Aperture Radar

radar fundamentals

scientific Python

ML pipelines

GPU compute

PyTorch

CUDA

remote sensing

data preprocessing

communication

Tools

NumPy

SciPy

Matplotlib

Jupyter

Job description

Next Tier Concepts in Chantilly, VA seeks an applied machine learning engineer to own radar and ML technical stack. The role spans radar/SAR simulation, ML model development, and compute infrastructure, with on-site Mon–Thu and remote on Friday.

Active TS/SCI clearance and US citizenship required. You will build end-to-end ML pipelines, manage data preprocessing, training, evaluation, packaging, and hand-off to software and hardware teams, while collaborating across RF and defense-focused