Engineer Senior Principal - EOIR Payload Calibration

Job description

The Engineering, Science and Analysis (ESA) Strategic Capabilities Unit comprises the technical talent and organizational leadership that enables the successful delivery of high-impact discriminating technologies for our customers’ missions. Our collaborative, cross-functional teams are committed to innovation, integrity, continual learning and strong execution.

• Lead program-level calibration approaches and support architecture development for emerging EOIR remote sensing payloads.
• Develop and implement calibration solutions necessary to achieve EO/IR remote sensor performance.
• Analyze optical payload and sub-system data quality requirements and decompose as necessary to enable the related design, build, test, and verification activities.
• Formulate and execute radiometric, spectral, and other calibration strategies to achieve the required mission data quality.
• Develop and utilize expertise in remote sensing missions, payload design, component hardware technologies, calibration sources, calibration techniques, and uncertainty analysis.
• Investigate novel calibration approaches and propose internal or customer funded research and development projects.
• Create and manage physics-based calibration models and budgets.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines (systems, optical, mechanical, electrical, software, test, etc.) in the planning and execution of calibration tasks.
• Be a program’s calibration lead and interface and support its chief engineer and chief systems engineer.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers, management, and customers.
• Mentor other engineers within the company facing related challenges.
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