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SAR Signal and Image Processing Engineer

Chantilly, VA💼 Full-time💰 $129,000–$129,000🗓 2026-07-09 → 2026-07-30

Core

Develop and advance signal and image processing techniques for SAR complex phase history data to support high-resolution radar imagery, moving target detection, maritime surveillance, and electronic protection applications.

Role type

Senior IC SAR Signal and Image Processing Engineer

Builds

SAR data processors, system performance models, and flight hardware prototypes

Domain

Defense & Intelligence / Remote Sensing / Radar Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

SAR image formation processing, SAR system performance modeling, moving target detection and tracking, maritime surveillance techniques, complex data processor development, advanced processing algorithms, integration leadership, technical team coordination

Preferred skills

Top Secret/SCI security clearance, PhD in Electrical Engineering/Physics/Mathematics/Imaging Sciences, MTI detection and tracking experience, space qualified SAR antenna/payload/sensor design, government customer technical representation

Technologies

SAR complex phase history data, Fourier transforms, differential equations, estimation theory

Responsibilities

Develop signal and image processing techniques for SAR data; Create and evolve SAR data processors; Evaluate SAR data utility for specific applications; Model and analyze SAR payload performance; Lead technical teams of early and mid-career engineers; Serve as technical representative to government customers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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