Senior SAR Image Scientist with Security Clearance

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Job description

Job Description Strategic ACI is seeking a motivated Senior SAR Image Scientist to join a skilled, highly respected and long-standing team supporting product quality mission. This is a unique opportunity to enhance your career by working with the community subject matter experts, directly with the customer and with project autonomy not customarily given as a government contractor. Based on the priorities of the customer, the image scientist will support product evaluations, quality studies, new product initializations, product algorithm assessments, or develop image quality equations to quantify the expected quality of a system given various parameters. Candidate should have a working understanding and practical application of modeling components of the image path to include sensor, detector, atmospheric, and material properties. Simulation and modeling experience and ability to develop algorithm description documentation for software development is needed. Familiarity with current GEOINT systems, products and development, as well as the exploitation software packages will be necessary to develop test and verification methodologies. The candidate will work within an existing team to complete tasks as prioritized by government customers. Good communication and teamwork is necessary. A history of delivering results is critical to success. Responsibilities: Sensor modeling; decomposing product formation elements to quantify the overall quality of the image chain.
Algorithm assessment to quantify the performance of a product given desire mission application.
Performing baseline assessment of system performance to support sensor initialization.
Operational monitoring of system performance over time.
Responding to detected errors and artifacts by recommending possible causes and corrective actions.
Qualifications: Required: Must have a minimum of a Top Secret clearance and willing to upgrade clearance to TS/SCI and sit for and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- Contract requires TS/SCI with poly.
Degree in Image Science, Electrical Engineering, or Physics.
12 Years of experience with a BS/BA, or 10 Years of experience with an MS/MA, or 7 Years of experience with a PhD.
Experience working with Imagery and Complex products collected with SAR imaging platforms.
Image processing and Digital Signal processing experience.
Image chain analysis to include sensor modeling, signal quality and noise, detectors, detector calibration, and complex processing image formation.
Application of error estimation.
Understanding and application of image quality standards (e.g. NIIRS), scales, metrics and image quality equations.
Significant applied knowledge of sensor imaging systems, products, and exploitation processes.
Strong understanding of the systems engineering lifecycle to include independent testing and data verification. Strong written and oral communication skills, with emphasis on briefing to obtain decisions and solve technical issues and test plans/reports writing.
Ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
Willingness to learn, solve problems and perform in a dynamic work environment.
Track record of delivering results.
SAR Experience.
Desired: Knowledge of National System for Geospatial-Intelligence (NSG) tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED) image chain, specifically the exploitation of SAR imagery and complex data products. Experience working in a DoD or IC operational environment
Experience developing engineering code (C, Python, Matlab, IDL) to solve hard problems and create processes for repeatable results. About Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc Strategic Alliance Consulting Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It has been and will continue to be a fundamental policy of Strategic ACI not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, domestic violence victim status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, caregiver status, unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, demotion, compensation, training, working conditions, transfer, job assignments, benefits, layoff, and termination. Applicants can learn more about the company's status as an equal opportunity employer by viewing the federal EEO is the Law poster. Why choose a career with Strategic ACI? Strategic Alliance Consulting, Inc. believes that our greatest asset is our employees. Our goal is not to meet our staff's expectations, but to exceed them. Competitive salaries, work-life balance, industry leading benefits packages, and family first values are at the core of Strategic ACI's culture. We're proud the be selected as a 2020 Best Places to Work in the Greater Washington Area by the Washington Business Journal (WBJ), as well as being 1 of 19 Virginia based companies to be awarded the prestigious HIRE Vets Gold Medallion by the Department of Labor for our commitment to veteran hiring, retention, and professional development. Your Strategic ACI Total Rewards Compensation Package includes: Competitive salary 100% benefits paid (Includes; health, dental, and vision plan premiums) for all full time employees and their families 401k with 5% match vested at day one! Profit sharing commensurate with company growth PTO - 3 weeks and 3 days per year 11 Company Paid Holidays (aligned with Federal Government) Long term/Short term disability 1.5x salary life insurance $100 per month cell phone allowance $6000 cash in lieu of benefits per year if employee is insured elsewhere Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 per year for college or professional certifications Casual dress code, company lunches, flexible schedules, employee phone plan discounts

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