Remote Sensing Scientist (InSAR) – Senior Level

Are you searching for a role where you can grow, work with a team of like-minded geospatial experts, and use your unique skill set to make the world a safer place?  NV5 Geospatial’s (formerly Axim Geospatial) GEO-SPI B program is ideal for geospatial professionals to leverage their unique tradecraft to support our country’s national security mission.

Role: Remote Sensing Scientist (InSAR) – Senior Level

Work Environment:

• Location:  NCW Campus in St Louis, MO
  Travel up to 15% of the time

NV5 is a global technology solutions and consulting services company with a workforce of over 4,500 professionals in more than 100 offices worldwide.  NV5’s continued growth has been spurred through strategic investments in firms with unique capabilities to help current and future customers solve the world’s toughest problems.  The NV5 family brings together talent across a wide range of markets and fields, including Professional Engineers, Professional Land Surveyors, Architects, Photogrammetrists, GIS Professionals, Software Developers, IT, Project Management Professionals, and more.

At NV5 Geospatial, We are a collaboration of intelligent, innovative thinkers who care for each other, our communities, and the environment.  We value both heart and head, the diversity of our people, and their experiences because that is how we continue to grow as a leader in our industry and expand our individual and collective potential.

The Remote Sensing Scientist will apply Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) as well as other remote sensing data sources and methods to establish high precision, high accuracy change detection methods. These methods will be used in tipping and queuing of geodetic survey requirements and other geoscientific applications, including natural hazard analysis, in support of a national security customer. Once established, the Remote Sensing Scientist will guide process implementation within unclassified cloud environments. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert (SME), the Remote Sensing Scientist will solicit and develop requirements with end users and mission teams, evaluate capabilities and limitations, statistically analyze data quality and uncertainty, and create Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and other documentation.

Requirements:

• Advanced knowledge of remote sensor and platform capabilities, including SAR sensors and platforms.

• 10 years’ experience processing and analyzing InSAR to include image splitting, coregistration, interferogram generation, coherence estimation, debursting, topographic phase removal, phase filtering, phase unwrapping, geocoding, phase to displacement, and masking out lower coherence areas.

• Experience using InSAR to determine 3D deformation.

• Experience applying geodetic and photogrammetric principles to co-register multiple data sets to the WGS84 reference frame and perform statistical analysis to determine the absolute and relative error.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) field with emphasis on remote sensing; or military equivalent. Additional experience can be substituted for education.

• Experience using SNAP, SNAPHU, StaMPS, or similar InSAR processing analysis software.

• Proficiency in ArcGIS and/or ArcPro, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, PCI Geomatics, or other remote sensing software analysis suites.

• Proficiency with Python scripting is preferred.

• Geodetic surveying or land surveying experience or coursework preferred.

Security Clearance Requirements: 

• Active TS/SCI with ability to obtain and maintain a Counter-Intelligence (CI) Polygraph. 

Competencies & Skills:

• Ability to apply structured processes to enrich or manage data.

• Ability to apply GEOINT standards and quality.

• Demonstrated ability to perform a variety of data exploitation techniques.

• Comfortable working with a team to achieve project completion.

• Keen attention to detail.

• Proficiency using MS Office Suite.

NV5 offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, PTO, 401(k) and professional development/advancement opportunities.

NV5 provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. NV5 complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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