Job Type: Full- Time
Workplace Type: Onsite
Clearance: TS/SCI
Must be a U.S. Citizen
This position is Contingent on Award
Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too.
Job Summary
Castalia Systems is seeking a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Exploitation/Imagery Scientist, Expert, to support our client.
Roles and Responsibilities
A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:
- Conduct 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.
- Investigate any gaps in the emerging sensor capability that may need to be supplemented by other sources.
- Explore options for coincident imagery collects from other imagery platforms (e.g., EO platforms) that align with areas of emerging sensor's collection. Determine other platforms with similar geographic and temporal coverage.
Required Qualifications:
- 6+ years as a SAR expert with understanding of collection, phenomenology, image formation process, and exploitation products.
- Exhibit experience using SARPy and Matlab SAR toolbox
- Experience in RNIIRS, information theoretic-based image quality metrics, SAR imagery quality metrics (e.g., Integrated Sidelobe Ratio, Multiplicative Noise Ratio), and sensor metadata describing impacts of geometry on phenomenology (e.g., graze, squint, azimuth)
- Exhibit experience exploiting SAR to determine the occurrence and location of objects of interest
- Exhibit experience developing, testing, and evaluating new algorithms, processes, methodologies, and products using SAR imagery including experience utilizing advanced processing tools (e.g., Python, MATLAB, Google Earth Engine, etc.) to automate scientific processes of SAR imagery data to aid analysis
- Exhibit 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 a deep understanding of the principles of remote sensing and imagery processing and advanced exploitation methods.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Exhibit experience applying CV and machine learning (ML) techniques to SAR imagery and data to address intelligence problems.
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
- Normal Office Environment
Travel
Company Description
Castalia Systems is a proven business partner providing mission critical solutions to the Federal Government. We provide cutting edge solutions from Securing and Managing Data to Systems Engineering and Development. Castalia Systems is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence Design and Application.
With our vast knowledge of our customers’ needs and relevant technology, our team is able to bring successful solutions to every mission. We are one-upping our competitors by providing premium IT solutions and platforms with cutting-edge technology so it’s so evident when you compare us with anyone.
Disclaimer
Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.
