EO Exploitation Specialist/Imagery Scientist, Senior

Castalia Systems•Springfield, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Castalia Systems is seeking a (Electro-Optical) Exploitation Specialist/Imagery Scientist, Senior, to support our client. This position requires a U.S. citizen with a TS/SCI clearance and is contingent on award. The role is full-time and onsite.

Requirements

4+ years as a EO expert with understanding of collection, phenomenology, image formation process, and exploitation products.
Experience EO imagery quality metrics and sensor metadata describing impacts of geometry on phenomenology.
Exhibit experience exploiting EO to determine the occurrence and location of objects of interest.
Exhibit experience communicating with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences on availability and capabilities of EO 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.

Nice To Haves

Exhibit experience applying CV and machine learning (ML) techniques to EO imagery and data to address intelligence problems.

Responsibilities

Assist the EO 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.