Principal Research Scientist

Overview

As a result of program growth, the Electronic Warfare Division is looking for a Principal Research Scientist to support remote sensing programs in Beavercreek, OH. As a Principal Research Scientist you will apply your skills to a wide variety of problems and datasets, primarily focused on remote sensing (SAR/RF, acoustic, EO/IR, and LIDAR) applications. You will work with a multi-disciplined design team (Electrical Engineers, Physicists, Computer Scientists, etc.)

to design, develop, simulate, and integrate components into sensor systems and data fusion solutions based on given project requirements. Current projects include, but are not limited to, detection, tracking, data fusion, and classification. This is an opportunity to contribute to the Combat Identification (CID) team for target recognition solutions using synthetic data AI/ML training techniques for multiple sensor modalities. The ideal candidate will bring technical excellence, leadership, entrepreneurship, and creativity to programs and may lead technical project areas with opportunities to grow in new technology areas or with new customers.

This position requires about three quarters of the job duties to be performed onsite due to the sensitive nature of this work and the desire for in-person collaboration. However, flexible in-office hours and the ability to perform some job duties remotely are available.

• Provide technical leadership for tasks and multiple technical area programs.
• Research, design, and develop sensor exploitation systems including signal processing, automatic target recognition (ATR), and target signature modeling.
• Develop ATR algorithms using Python, MATLAB, C++, and other languages for real world applications. Leverage state-of-the-art AI/ML tools and methods to improve performance of ATR systems.
• Rapidly and iteratively implement new algorithms to address new challenges.
• Collaborate with customers to address challenging mission requirements by researching and developing new capabilities as well as improving existing systems.
• Develop performance models and algorithms for new and/or existing target recognition solutions.
• Perform high-level software development functions using Python, PyTorch, C++, MATLAB, Java or similar languages including design, development, troubleshooting, and debugging software programs.
• Collaborate with other experts within the program and in the user community to design, develop, and debug existing software, and to design and develop enhancements that incorporate new capabilities into various components of the existing systems.

• Bachelor’s degree with 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience. May possess a Doctorate in technical domain.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical solutions to coworkers, teammates, and customers.
• Familiarity with common machine and deep learning packages such as Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, etc.
• Experience developing computer vision applications
• Strong programming ability in Python and/or C/C++ for Linux and Windows environments
• Significant experience with Python and MATLAB
• Familiarity with Linux and Windows operating systems
• Strong background in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or data science
• Experience presenting technical/scientific literature and presentations to customer stakeholders, conferences and/or community workgroup meetings.
• Experience contributing to business development activities including proposal writing and capture management support.
• Possess an active SECRET clearance or higher, with an ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• US citizenship required

• Experience with Automatic Target Recognition algorithm development
• Experience working with monostatic or bi-static Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and/or Synthetic Aperture Lidar (SAL) data and sensor systems
• Experience with multi-sensor data fusion
• Background with multi-static radar research and development
• Familiarity with Git Lab and/or Jira - issue tracking and agile project management, or similar tools
• Experience using AFSIM and successful completion of AFSIM training
• Experien…