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Job Description: SAR Data Scientist/Imagery Scientist
Location
Falls Church, VA
Employment Type
Direct-hire opportunity with a Federal Integrator
Clearance Requirement
Active TS/SCI Clearance (CI Polygraph eligibility – can be sponsored)
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Psychology
Work & Labor Issues
Text & Instant Messaging
Role Summary
Join a high-performing team supporting advanced AI and machine learning initiatives for national security and intelligence missions. Evaluate AI models against Government datasets to assess performance, resilience, and robustness across adversarial scenarios. Test and validate autonomous algorithms for operational decision-making in dynamic mission environments.
Compensation & Benefits
Key Responsibilities
NorthHill Technology Resources (for a Federal Integrator client)
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Job Description: SAR Data Scientist/Imagery Scientist
Location
Falls Church, VA
- On-site, Remote
Employment Type
Direct-hire opportunity with a Federal Integrator
Clearance Requirement
Active TS/SCI Clearance (CI Polygraph eligibility – can be sponsored)
Discover more
Psychology
Work & Labor Issues
Text & Instant Messaging
Role Summary
Join a high-performing team supporting advanced AI and machine learning initiatives for national security and intelligence missions. Evaluate AI models against Government datasets to assess performance, resilience, and robustness across adversarial scenarios. Test and validate autonomous algorithms for operational decision-making in dynamic mission environments.
Compensation & Benefits
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 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 impact of new sensor data on data architectures, including metadata, file formats, schemas, APIs, and ETL processes
- Evaluate data acquisition strategies, collection latency, data formats, and security domains for new sensor sources
- Develop preprocessing and standardization workflows (file format conversion, image tiling, geospatial normalization, etc.) for AI/ML model testing
- Active TS/SCI clearance with eligibility for CI Polygraph
- 4 years of experience working with SAR imagery (collection methodologies, radar phenomenology, image formation, exploitation products)
- Experience evaluating SAR imagery quality metrics and interpreting sensor metadata (e.g., graze angle, squint angle, azimuth effects)
- Demonstrated experience exploiting SAR imagery to detect, identify, and geolocate objects of interest
- Strong understanding of remote sensing principles, imagery processing, and advanced SAR exploitation techniques
- Excellent communication skills to present SAR methodologies and findings to technical and non-technical audiences
- 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
NorthHill Technology Resources (for a Federal Integrator client)
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence