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Job Description Job Title: SAR Data Scientist/Imagery Scientist
Location:
Falls Church, VA
- On-site, Remote (Springfield, VA for this role)
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Employment Type Direct-hire opportunity with our client, a highly respected Federal Integrator.
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Clearance Required Current TS/SCI Clearance required. Eligibility for CI Polygraph (sponsorship available).
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Job Summary Seeking an experienced SAR Data Scientist/Imagery Scientist to join a high-performing team supporting advanced AI and machine learning initiatives for complex national security and intelligence missions. The program focuses on evaluating AI models against Government datasets to assess performance, resilience, and robustness across adversarial scenarios, including testing autonomous algorithms for operational decision-making in dynamic mission environments.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide subject matter expertise in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery, geospatial analysis, and quantitative assessment.
- Support data curation, imagery exploitation, and dataset development for machine learning model testing and evaluation.
- Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and mission analysts to prepare, standardize, and optimize imagery products for AI/ML applications.
- Support the Lead SAR Scientist in evaluating emerging sensor capabilities and comparing new collection platforms with existing systems.
- Assess the impact of new sensor data on existing data architectures (metadata, file formats, schemas, APIs, ETL processes).
- Evaluate data acquisition strategies, collection latency, data formats, and security domains for new sensor sources.
- Develop preprocessing and standardization workflows for imagery labeling, analytics, and AI/ML model testing (e.g., file format conversion, image tiling, geospatial normalization).
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI clearance with eligibility for CI Polygraph.
- 4+ years of experience with SAR imagery, including collection methodologies, radar phenomenology, image formation, and exploitation products.
- Experience evaluating SAR imagery quality metrics and interpreting sensor metadata (e.g., graze angle, squint angle, azimuth).
- Demonstrated experience exploiting SAR imagery to detect, identify, and geolocate objects.
- Strong understanding of remote sensing principles, imagery processing, and advanced SAR exploitation techniques.
- Excellent communication skills for presenting SAR methodologies and findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience applying computer vision (CV), machine learning (ML), or deep learning techniques to SAR imagery and geospatial data for intelligence, defense, or remote sensing applications.
Employer NorthHill Technology Resources (hiring for a Federal Integrator client)
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