Senior SAR Imaging Scientist – Onsite VA

ManTech; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH in Springfield, VA seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior SAR Imagery Scientist to join our team in a full-time onsite role. You will support SAR data evaluation, preprocessing, and standardization for labeling and model testing, collaborating with diverse teams to advance imagery exploitation.

Requirements include 10+ years experience (4 years acceptable with BA, 6 with MA/MS) in SAR, knowledge of metadata and data formats, and ability to communicate complex capabilities

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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

SAR expertise

Remote sensing basics

Data communication

Analytical skills

Imaging quality metrics

Job description

MANTECH in Springfield, VA seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior SAR Imagery Scientist to join our team in a full-time onsite role. You will support SAR data evaluation, preprocessing, and standardization for labeling and model testing, collaborating with diverse teams to advance imagery exploitation.

Requirements include 10+ years experience (4 years acceptable with BA, 6 with MA/MS) in SAR, knowledge of metadata and data formats, and ability to communicate complex capabilities