Senior SAR Imagery Scientist — TS/SCI Eligible

B/CORE; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health/Dental/Vision

401(k)

Paid Time Off

Job summary

BCore seeks a Senior SAR Imagery Scientist to join our Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO team.

You will evaluate new SAR sensors, standardize imagery workflows, and develop algorithms for SAR data processing and geospatial analysis, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Applicants should have 4+ years of hands-on SAR experience, proficiency with SARPy and MATLAB SAR toolbox, and strong communication skills to convey findings to technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI eligibility with eligibility to obtain CI poly.
• 4+ years of hands-on SAR expertise, including collection, phenomenology, image formation, and exploitation.
• Experience with SARPy and/or MATLAB SAR toolbox.
• Familiarity with SAR image quality assessment methods and sensor metadata.
• Understanding of how geometry affects SAR phenomenology (e.g., graze angle, squint, azimuth).
• Experience exploiting SAR imagery for object detection and characterization.
• Experience developing and automating geospatial or imagery processing workflows.
• Strong foundation in remote sensing principles and geospatial data processing.
• Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and integrate new SAR sensors and platforms into existing data workflows, including sensors still in early development phases.
• Assess differences between new and existing sensors including data formats, metadata structures, and processing requirements and determine changes needed for downstream use.
• Pre-process, standardize, and tile imagery to specified formats and dimensions while preserving data integrity.
• Develop conversion models to transform data across imagery formats and coordinate systems, ensuring geospatial accuracy.
• Analyze image quality and sensor metadata to guide imagery acquisition and curation priorities.
• Build automated methods to manage and curate large imagery datasets, including integrating with external data sources via APIs.
• Support annotation workflows by identifying and flagging imagery containing objects of interest.
• Source complementary imagery from other sensors to support multi-modal analysis.
• Develop, test, and evaluate new algorithms and processing workflows using Python, MATLAB, or similar tools.
• Manage routine and ad-hoc imagery delivery operations.
• Communicate technical findings and capabilities to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

TS/SCI clearance

CI poly eligibility

SAR expertise

Tools

SARPy

MATLAB SAR Toolbox

Job description

BCore seeks a Senior SAR Imagery Scientist to join our Springfield, VA or St. Louis, MO team.

You will evaluate new SAR sensors, standardize imagery workflows, and develop algorithms for SAR data processing and geospatial analysis, collaborating with cross-functional teams. Applicants should have 4+ years of hands-on SAR experience, proficiency with SARPy and MATLAB SAR toolbox, and strong communication skills to convey findings to technical and non-technical audiences.