Image Scientist - Senior (PIR)

What Impact You'll Have

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 1–3 analysis, laboratory and test-range activities, data-quality assessment, signature development, technical intelligence production, and the transition of new analytical methods into operational use.

What You'll be Owning

• 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 1–3 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

What You Must Have

• 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 1–3 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 strategies
  • Research efforts and analytical products
• Experience reviewing and defending analytical conclusions, resolving conflicting technical interpretations, and communicating uncertainty and confidence to decision-makers
• Proven ability to develop personnel, mentor junior analysts or scientists, and improve team tradecraft
• Ability to represent the company professionally in customer engagements and contribute to technical strategy, program shaping, and proposal development
• A degree is preferred; substantial directly relevant Intelligence Community, military, scientific, engineering, or operational experience may be considered in lieu of a specific degree requirement

What Would be Nice to Have

• Strong background in radiometry, including:
  • Radiometric calibration, detector response, signal-to-noise characterization, and dynamic range
  • Uncertainty propagation, instrument drift, nonuniformity, background subtraction, and cross-sensor comparison
• Experience with infrared phenomenology and analysis across relevant spectral regions
• Experience analyzing multispectral or hyperspectral imagery and data, including:
  • Spectral feature extraction and endmember or material characterization
  • Dimensionality reduction, targe-background separability, spectral libraries, and atmospheric effects
• Experience with EO/IR imaging systems, non-imaging radiometers, spectrometers, thermal imagers, focal-plane arrays, laboratory sources, calibration targets, or related instrumentation
• Strong background in temporal analysis of laboratory or field-collected data, including:
  • Synchronization, time-series conditioning, and event segmentation
  • Trend and change detection, anomaly analysis, transient characterization, and multi-instrument correlation
• Experience building or maintaining reproducible data-processing and analysis pipelines, including:
  • Automated quality checks, metadata handling, and version control
  • Configuration management and traceable analytical outputs
• Familiarity with statistical inference, detection theory, signal processing, image processing, time-series analysis, machine learning, pattern recognition, modeling and simulation, or data fusion
• Experience working with PIR data products, ground-processing environments, collection-management workflows, or operational exploitation tools
• Experience supporting military or government laboratories, acquisition organizations, test and evaluation organizations, operational units, combatant commands, service intelligence centers, or national Intelligence Community elements
• Experience planning or executing collections at U.S. or OCONUS test ranges, including:
  • Range coordination, collection plans, instrumentation, and logistics
  • Field operations, data custody, after-action reporting, and post-test analysis
• Experience operating in multidisciplinary teams composed of scientists, engineers, operators, collection managers, intelligence analysts, software developers, and program personnel
• Graduate education, published technical work, relevant military training, formal intelligence-analysis training, collection-management training, or recognized subject-matter expertise in a relevant mission area

Pay Range: At GRVTY, we understand that compensation is influenced by many factors—such as geographic location, federal contract labor categories, wage rates, prior experience, skillsets, education, and certifications. We’re proud to offer a work environment that empowers our team to achieve a strong work-life balance. GRVTY provides competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, and meaningful opportunities for professional growth. Our benefits package is designed to support the well-being of our employees and their families, and includes coverage in areas such as healthcare, financial wellness, retirement planning, family assistance, continued education, and paid time off.

• The pay range for this position is: $170,000 - $190,000