Senior SAR Scientist (Radar & Remote Sensing)

NCSL International; El Segundo (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 305,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited flexible time off

Company bonus program

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Voyager Technologies in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Principal Scientist, Radar and Remote Sensing to lead SAR, radar signal processing, and remote sensing efforts. You will guide technical strategy, mentor teams, and engage with government and commercial customers to translate mission needs into achievable concepts.

You will define development roadmaps, oversee complex data quality challenges, and contribute to proposals, white papers, and business development initiatives, while reporting to

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in electrical engineering, physics, applied mathematics, radar science, remote sensing, or a related field.
• Typically 25+ years of experience in radar, SAR, signal processing, remote sensing, or related mission applications.
• Nationally or internationally recognized expertise in SAR technology, signal processing, exploitation, or phenomenology.
• Experience advising senior government, defense, intelligence, or commercial stakeholders, with a strong record contributing to proposals, white papers, and business‑development activities.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Voyager-EMSI's principal technical authority for SAR, radar signal processing, and remote sensing phenomenology across airborne, space-based, and other advanced sensor platforms.
• Evaluate sensor capabilities, collection geometries, waveforms, and other system characteristics that drive data quality and exploitation potential.
• Diagnose complex SAR data quality, calibration, image formation, and exploitation challenges beyond standard engineering approaches, and provide authoritative judgment where requirements or data are incomplete.
• Establish Voyager-EMSI's technical vision and research priorities for SAR signal processing, exploitation, and advanced analytics; identify emerging capabilities and strategic opportunities.
• Lead technical trade studies and feasibility assessments for new sensor concepts, processing techniques, and algorithms; guide integration of classical signal processing, physics-based modeling, and machine learning.
• Define credible development roadmaps and review major technical assumptions and decisions across Voyager-EMSI's SAR portfolio, keeping solutions grounded in sensor physics and data limitations.
• Provide technical direction to multidisciplinary teams, mentor staff, and conduct reviews to ensure scientifically sound analyses and documentation.
• Serve as escalation point for SAR challenges, influencing decisions across programs without direct authority.
• Communicate complex SAR concepts to experts and non-experts, and represent Voyager-EMSI in customer meetings and industry events.
• Drive business development by identifying customer needs and contributing to proposals and white papers.

Skills

SAR technology

Radar signal processing

Remote sensing

Mentoring staff

Scientific problem-solving

Stakeholder engagement

Proposals & white papers

Vision & leadership

Education

PhD in electrical engineering or related field

Advanced degree in physics/radar science/remote sensing

Job description

Voyager Technologies in El Segundo, CA, is seeking a Principal Scientist, Radar and Remote Sensing to lead SAR, radar signal processing, and remote sensing efforts. You will guide technical strategy, mentor teams, and engage with government and commercial customers to translate mission needs into achievable concepts.

You will define development roadmaps, oversee complex data quality challenges, and contribute to proposals, white papers, and business development initiatives, while reporting to