Image Scientist / Physicist

Location: Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania, United States; onsite with no remote or telework allowed

Salary: $5,000 per month

Company

hirify.global is an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor.

What you will do

• Perform studies and analysis to characterize and improve remote sensing data quality across PAN, IR, MSI, HSI, LIDAR, and RADAR systems.
• Coordinate payload calibration planning, including meetings, handbooks, schedules, data dissemination concepts of operations, readiness plans, and review execution plans.
• Manage collaborative sites and data repositories used by distributed calibration teams.
• Deliver radiometric data, sensor characterization reports, calibration briefings, and analyses of calibration truth data and accuracy.
• Maintain scripts, processes, and data used for calibration assessment and monitoring, and validate testing and capability transitions.
• Investigate anomalous product-quality performance, monitor enterprise data integrity, and coordinate future capability and requirements planning with external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor’s degree with 5–7 years of relevant experience, master’s degree with 3–5 years, or PhD with 0–2 years in Image Science, Optics, Applied Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• Technical analysis experience with EO remote sensing data, image processing, digital signal processing, and image chain analysis.
• Experience developing or modifying engineering code in Python, MATLAB, ENVI/IDL, or a similar tool.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work independently and in team environments, represent customer needs, and participate in outreach and community forums.

Nice to have

• Seven or more years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, or comparable experience with a master’s degree.
• Project management or leadership experience.
• Experience with atmospheric radiative transfer models such as MODTRAN, XML data handling, NITF or JPEG image formats, AI/ML tools, or big data analysis.
• Experience with multiple engineering programming and image-processing tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.
• Onsite work in Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania.
• Federal government contractor environment with customer-focused technical work.
• Equal opportunity employment.