Maven Exploitation Specialist​/Imagery Scientist; EO Focused Ex Security Clearance

Position: Maven Exploitation Specialist/ Imagery Scientist (EO Focused) Ex with Security Clearance
+++ This opportunity is for an upcoming award expected in July 2026
**** BTS Software Solutions is seeking a Maven Exploitation Specialist/ Imagery Scientist (EO Focused) Expert to support Department of Defense IC missions at Springfield, VA. The Maven Exploitation Specialist/ Imagery Scientist (EO Focused) Expert will provide technical direction and conduct the work necessary to acquire and prepare imagery of the necessary quality, standards, and requirements provided by the Government. Developed solutions should be informed by specific phenomenology limitations and advantages of the sensors and platforms in mind.

Primary

Location:

Springfield, VA Secondary Locations:
St. Louis, Missouri Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI, must be willing to take a CI Poly in the future What You'll Get to Do:

Job Duties:

* Integrate emerging sensors and platforms into existing Maven or G going through their experimentation/pre-IOC (Initial Operating Capability) phase prior to final full operational status. With as much available information as possible on the emerging sensor, develop pipelines and relevant data structures to incorporate new sensor source into existing data workflows.
* Conduct assessment of potential differences between new sensor characteristics and capabilities compared to currently utilized platforms
* Assess potential differences in metadata, data format, and data structure characteristics in regards to changes to databases, schemas, APis, and other ETL related processes for the ingestion and movement of data when integrating into the existing data operations pipeline
* Determine how to acquire new data, potential latency associated with acquisition, data formats, and security domains
* Determine how to pre-process and standardize the data to match existing data standards or to be transformed into a usable state for labeling and model development purposes. This may involve converting between file format types or tiling full-size images into specified sizes or geospatial bounds.
* Investigate any gaps in the emerging sensor capability that may need to be supplemented by other sources Collaborate with SAR Imagery Scientist to provide coincident EO imagery. Provided EO coincident imagery should align with the areas and temporal windows of emerging sensor's collection.
* Develop and implement mathematical conversion models to transform data labels from multiple imagery types (e.g., PNG, NITF), as well as between orthorectified and non-orthorectified imagery
* Develop methods to execute tiling and pre-processing of full-size raw imagery into specified sizes and data formats (e.g., PNG) while maintaining metadata and data integrity
* Develop and implement mathematical conversion models to transform pre-processed tiles between image types and generate tiles with specified, precise geospatial boundaries. These methods should account for orthorectification and other geospatial aspects to ensure edges of the tile remain geospatially accurate. Generate tiles from full-size image collects that match specific pixel dimensions or geospatial boundaries.
* • Analyze and assess image quality and sensor metadata to make recommendations and curate imagery acquisition in alignment with Government directed priorities. Experience in NIIRS, information theoretic-based image quality metrics, and sensor metadata describing impacts of geometry on phenomenology
• Execute day-to-day management of all imagery curation, acquisition, and pre-processing of imagery, such as image tiling, generation of pre-labels (i.e., labels generated from intelligence reporting, machine-derived observation, human observation, or other method that indicates the geospatial location and classification of an object according to a defined ontology used to tip and cue human labelers to an object of interest), and converting between file types in accordance with NGA Maven data strategies
* Manage daily imagery operations including:
• Curation, acquisition, and pre-processing activities
• Image tiling and file type conversion
• Generation of pre-labels derived from:
Intelligence reporting, Machine-derived observations, Human observations, other…