Senior OPIR Mission Engineer - Req#1097
$180,000.00
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$210,000.00
Top Secret/SCI Clearance
Full Time
El Segundo
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California
Benefits:
401k with 12% company contribution
Annual Bonus 3%
Up to $5,000, per year for education reimbursement
11 paid holidays
4 Weeks PTO
Full Medical for employee and dependents – 100% covered
Competitive salary
The Tech7 company is a top provider of support for rapid solutions development, complex systems integration, and the onboarding of commercial capabilities. Since our establishment in 2015, we’ve earned a solid reputation for honesty, innovation, and quality. Our team of experts has vast experience in complex systems gained from working across various sectors. With this experience, we offer end-to-end support throughout the integration of new technologies, from initial concept to ongoing operations and maintenance.
Tech7 is looking for a Senior OPIR Mission Engineer to join our team to support a critical space mission. This is an in-person role located in El Segundo, CA.
Our team builds and maintains a powerful Modeling & Simulation platform enabling teammates to address challenging real-world problems for the Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) mission by evaluating current and future system performance. We work directly with both system manufacturers and operational users to design, develop, and maintain capabilities that empower decision makers to create actionable intelligence from OPIR data to give our intel and combat organizations the decision advantage over our near-peer adversaries.
Specifically, our team is looking for a Senior EO/IR Mission Engineer to support system modeling of multiple sensors from aperture to product generation ensuring the end user can take full advantage of system capabilities. Sometimes called Image Chain Analysis (ICA), this position requires a senior engineer to support a multi-disciplinary team of highly skilled physicists, engineers and mathematicians to model overall system performance and utility. Modeling efforts will include improving existing system capabilities and evaluating next generation system performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Support generation and evaluation of sensor models for existing and future remote sensing capabilities
Support the generation of synthetic target and background data for use in evaluating future sensor detection capabilities
Support system of system detection performance for a wide range of target signatures in cluttered backgrounds
Develop and evaluate new and advanced algorithms, perform remote sensing simulations, and analyses using simulated and real data
Supporting data exploitation as it relates to collection systems, collection planning, data processing and transmission
Provide insights and technical recommendations on approaches to computationally intensive problems
Working independently and collaborating with other personnel to solve challenging technical problems
Evaluate and generate requirements for future imaging systems
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a related STEM field, particularly Remote Sensing, Imaging Science, Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics, Atmospheric Science, Computer Science, Optical or Electrical Engineering
12+ years remote sensing with significant portion in the OPIR domain
Exceptional analytic problem-solving skills relating to the performance of passive remote sensing electro-optical visible and infrared sensors
Experience with infrared imaging systems, image processing, image exploitation, or digital signal processing
Ability to work interactively and effectively with government customers and contractor personnel
Familiarity with Agile development processes and associated collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and git
This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret/SCI security clearance, which is issued by the US government
Must be a U.S citizen
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree in a related STEM field, particularly Remote Sensing, Imaging Science, Astronomy, Physics, Mathematics, Atmospheric Science,
Computer Science, Optical or Electrical Engineering
15+ years remote sensing with significant portion including OPIR domain
Programming experience using Python and/or MATLAB
Knowledge of Intelligence processes (e.g., tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, dissemination)
Familiarity with data visualization and data science principles and applications
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