Image Scientist - Senior; PIR

GRVTY is seeking motivated and experienced multidisciplinary scientists and intelligence analysts to support Persistent Infrared (PIR), Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI), research and development, collection planning, and broader multi-INT missions. The ideal candidate brings established Intelligence Community experience, a record of technical or analytical leadership, and a passion for advanced scientific problem solving across the full PIR mission lifecycle — from collection requirements and tasking through data production, exploitation, technical analysis, analytic reporting, and the development and evaluation of new collection and processing capabilities.

Successful candidates may support operational collections, R&D collection campaigns, Phase 1–3 analysis, laboratory and test-range activities, data-quality assessment, signature development, technical intelligence production, and the transition of new analytical methods into operational use.

• Support the development, refinement, and validation of PIR collection requirements, including:
  • Intelligence needs and observables
  • Essential elements of information
  • Collection success criteria
• Plan and support routine, operational, and R&D PIR collections, including:
  • Collection feasibility assessments and tasking coordination
  • Coverage analysis and test-event planning
  • Post-collection evaluation
• Apply knowledge of the PIR mission enterprise across the full pipeline, including:
  • Collection requirements and tasking
  • Sensor operations and ground processing
  • Data production, exploitation, and dissemination
  • Downstream analytical use
• Perform or support Phase 1–3 exploitation and analysis in accordance with applicable customer workflows, tradecraft standards, and reporting requirements
• Conduct quantitative analysis of laboratory, field, test-range, and operationally collected data, including:
  • Radiometric, spectral, temporal, and spatial analysis
  • Phenomenological analysis
• Data conditioning, calibration, and quality control
• Exploratory analysis and visualization
• Uncertainty characterization and technical reporting
• Compare laboratory or modeled signatures with field and overhead observations, accounting for:
  • Sensor response, geometry, and atmospheric effects
  • Background conditions, operational variability, and collection limitations
• Develop and evaluate algorithms, analytical tools, models, scripts, databases, and data-processing pipelines that improve:
  • Collection planning and exploitation
  • Signature analysis and intelligence production
• Produce defensible technical assessments, briefings, and data products for technical and senior decision-maker audiences, including:
  • Collection recommendations and requests for information
  • Finished and foundational S&TI products
• Identify collection gaps, analytical uncertainties, anomalous observations, and opportunities for follow-on collection or experimentation
• Work directly with government customers, operators, collectors, engineers, laboratory personnel, test organizations, analysts, and other mission partners
• Support the transition of R&D capabilities into operational environments, including:
  • Test design, verification, and validation
  • Documentation, user feedback, and performance assessment
• Apply multi-INT approaches where appropriate, including integration or correlation of PIR with:
  • GMTI, imagery, radar, and telemetry
  • Geospatial, all-source, and other relevant data
• Support CONUS and OCONUS test-range activities, including:
  • Pre-deployment planning and instrumentation coordination
  • Data collection, field troubleshooting, and documentation
  • Post-test analysis
• Contribute to internal technical reviews, mentor other employees, and independently plan and complete assigned work

• Active Top Secret clearance with the…