Imagery Scientist (EO) - Expert

Location: Falls Church, Virginia, United States, or St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Salary: $180,000–$210,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global delivers mission and technical expertise for national security, technology, and defense challenges.

What you will do

• Serve as the lead technical authority for electro-optical exploitation and imagery science initiatives.
• Analyze EO collection capabilities, sensor phenomenology, image formation processes, and emerging sensor characteristics.
• Exploit imagery to detect, identify, and locate objects of interest across intelligence scenarios.
• Develop, test, and evaluate algorithms, exploitation methodologies, scientific workflows, and automated processing techniques using Python, MATLAB, and Google Earth Engine.
• Pre-process, normalize, standardize, convert, and tile imagery for labeling, model testing, and advanced exploitation workflows.
• Evaluate impacts on metadata, data formats, APIs, ETL processes, and operational pipelines while collaborating with SAR Imagery Scientists on coincident imagery and multi-INT workflows.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance and ability to obtain a CI/Poly.
• 4+ years of expert EO imagery exploitation and imagery science experience.
• Expertise in EO collection systems, remote sensing phenomenology, image formation processes, and exploitation products and methodologies.
• Experience developing and evaluating algorithms, automated workflows, scientific workflows, and exploitation methods.
• Hands-on experience with Python, MATLAB, Google Earth Engine, and EO imagery processing tools.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to technical audiences, non-technical stakeholders, and intelligence users.

Nice to have

• Experience applying computer vision and machine learning techniques to EO imagery and data for intelligence problems.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Health Savings Account with company contribution.
• Annual paid time off, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Training and development opportunities, award programs, and company-sponsored events.