Senior Scientist

Description

Are you looking for more than just a seat on a contract? Are you looking for a place where your work truly matters? At Skyline Scientific, your ideas won't get buried in bureaucracy—they’ll directly shape mission‑critical capabilities for the intelligence and defense communities.

Skyline is looking for a Senior Scientist to lead research, algorithm development, and advanced analytics for cutting‑edge electro‑optical and infrared sensing systems. This role applies physics‑based modeling, image science, and data analytics to detect, track, locate, and characterize remote sensing targets. While familiarity with OPIR is valuable, the primary emphasis is on EO/IR phenomenology, sensor performance, and multi‑platform remote sensing analytics in support of intelligence and defense missions.

Full‑time

• Mission‑Focused Work:
  We solve hard problems in remote sensing, AI‑enhanced analytics, and sensor fusion—our work directly impacts national security.
• Industry‑Leading Benefits: 15% 401(k) match (no contribution required) and employer‑paid healthcare—the best package in the industry.
• Custom Solutions, Not Cookie‑Cutter Code:
  We build AI‑enhanced software for electro‑optical, infrared, OPIR, SAR, and dynamic sensor applications.
• High‑Performing Team:
  Collaborate with AI/ML experts, algorithm engineers, and sensor specialists to develop cutting‑edge software.
• Opportunities to Innovate:
  Our engineers don't just write code—they research, design, and deploy groundbreaking AI/ML and sensing algorithms.

• Provide senior‑level research and development of advanced algorithms for EO/IR remote sensing systems, enabling detection, tracking, location, and characterization of targets.
• Design, implement, and evaluate algorithms to assess EO/IR sensor and camera system performance, including noise modeling, calibration, and sensitivity analysis.
• Conduct advanced analytics research across multiple remote sensing platforms, sensors, and collection geometries.
• Analyze datasets to extract signatures, characterize targets, and generate actionable intelligence insights.
• Review, validate, and enhance analytic products to ensure technical rigor and mission relevance.
• Maintain detailed, reproducible analysis logs documenting workflows, assumptions, and analytic methods.
• Adapt quickly to real‑time mission demands and respond to EO/IR analysis requests.
• Support collection planning and requirements definition for remote sensors, coordinating priorities across multiple systems.
• Test and evaluate emerging EO/IR algorithms, tools, and exploitation platforms; help develop new trade studies and capability assessments.
• Prepare and deliver technical briefings, analytic findings, and customer‑facing presentations.
• Produce technical reports documenting analytic methodologies, results, limitations, and conclusions.
• Mentor junior analysts and researchers; contribute to analytic standards, best practices, and methodology development.
• Recommend enhancements to sensor tools, processes, and workflows; support development of new analytic applications that improve product quality.

• Active TOP SECRET/SCI with the ability to obtain a Poly:
  This position requires a security clearance, which is issued by the U.S. government—U.S. citizenship is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Image Science, Engineering, Applied Physics, Atmospheric Science, Applied Mathematics, or related fields and 5 years of OPIR experience.
• Experience with image processing and/or digital signal processing tools that process short and mid‑wave infrared.
• Experience using algorithms for target detection and background suppression.
• Experience in the TCPED process for OPIR, either in Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination.
• Experience using multi‑data stream ingest and analysis techniques.
• Excellent documentation skills, organizational skills, and verbal communication (including presentation) skills.
• Ability to work independently or with a team.

• Master’s degree in Image Science, Engineering, Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, or related fields and 5 years of OPIR experience.
• Experi…