Image Scientist - Senior; PIR

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

Position Title: 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 13 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 13 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
• Develop repeatable workflows for:
  • 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 ability to obtain a SCI
• 8+ years of directly relevant experience, with consideration given to the depth, relevance, and impact of the candidate's work
• Deep knowledge of PIR collections, tasking, operations, data production, exploitation, Phase 13 analysis, technical intelligence, or capability-development activities
• Experience leading:
  • Collection campaigns, R&D programs, or complex technical analyses
  • Intelligence-production efforts, test events, or cross-organizational working groups
• Demonstrated ability to identify intelligence or capability gaps and convert them into:
  • Executable technical plans and collection…