Image Processing Engineer

Northrop Grumman•Los Angeles, CA

3d•$125,300 - $234,600•Onsite

About The Position

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems is a trusted provider of mission-enabling solutions for global security. Our Engineering and Sciences (E&S) organization pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered with providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission! Northrop Grumman Mission Systems in Woodland Hills, CA is currently seeking a Principal or Senior Principal Signal/Image Processing Engineer with a current/active Top Secret clearance to support sensor exploitation activities in the Artificial Intelligence and Analytics department. In this role, the selected candidate will join a staff of signal/image processing engineers, systems engineers, and software engineers that supports the development of signal and image processing algorithms and software. In this position you will develop and prototype new algorithms or enhancements to existing algorithms, refine the algorithms on the program database, and work in close collaboration with software engineers who implement the algorithms in configured software products. The position requires knowledge of classical signal processing techniques; the supported programs also increasingly value and use AI/ML-based algorithms.

Requirements

Active U.S. Government Secret Clearance and enrolled in Continuous Evaluation
Ability to obtain a Top Secret Clearance and to meet customer-specific security screening requirements within a timeframe set forth by management
Willingness and ability to work onsite full-time in Woodland Hills, CA
Background in signal/image processing
Experience working in MATLAB and/or Python
Demonstrated presentation skills
Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance and enrolled in Continuous Evaluation

Nice To Haves

Experience designing novel mathematical and statistical modeling and algorithm products to tackle the challenges of prediction, optimization, and classification
Experience designing signal processing algorithms for advance computer architectures
Familiarity with C / C++
Familiarity with current AI/ML techniques

Responsibilities

Introducing and developing new algorithm components for the exploitation of signal and image data
Applying classical signal/image processing algorithms and/or machine learning algorithms to large sets of structured and unstructured data to solve a broad range of problems that include applications in pattern recognition, target detection and tracking, and false alarm mitigation
Interfacing with software engineers to ensure implemented algorithms are correct, robust, and maintainable
Designing a robust test suite
Creating presentation material to explain and document work, and presenting to internal and external stakeholders

Benefits

Relocation assistance may be available
health insurance coverage
life and disability insurance
savings plan
Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
overtime
shift differential
discretionary bonus
Annual bonuses
Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions)