JOB TITLE: Sr. Researcher - AI/ML Enabled Spatiotemporal Imagery
LOCATION: Bethesda, Maryland
CLEARANCE: No clearance to start but preferred. MUST be US Citizen to be clearable. Prefer TS/SCI with CI Poly.
JOB
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Attend meetings, workshops, conferences and testing events as a Subject Matter Expert.
- Assist with the development of presentations such as Program Management Reviews.
- Serve as a Liaison between Performers, Test & Evaluation contributors, Government and Transition partners.
- Review, provide analysis, and make recommendations concerning technical reports, data and Performer approaches.
- Examine data sources and literary sources for emerging technology related to the Program.
- Provide technical support and expertise on new concepts beyond the Program within areas of expertise.
REQUIRED EXPERTISE:
- Must have current Top Secret/SCI (Tier 5+) with polygraph clearance.
- Bachelors’ degree in physics, mathematics, computer science, or relevant engineering fields (e.g. electrical, computer, systems, software) with eight plus (8+) years of work experience, or Masters' degree with four plus (4+) years of work experience, or PhD with two plus (2+) years of work experience. PhD is desirable, but not absolutely required if work experience provides depth and breadth of technical understanding and evidence of problem-solving capability equivalent to what would be expected for a PhD.
- Five (5) years of experience in computer vision R&D.
- Two (2) years of experience with R&D of machine learning and deep learning algorithms.
- One (1) year of experience managing a multi-disciplinary research and development (R&D) or Test and Evaluation (T&E) team.
- Two (2) years of experience creating program plans, work breakdown structures, and milestone schedules.
- Excellent writing and editing skills. Ability to develop succinct, comprehensive, understandable documents using complex data from multiple sources.
- Excellent slide development and PowerPoint skills. Ability to visually communicate complex ideas at a high level for technically savvy, but non-expert audiences.
- Strong organizational, problem solving, and time management skills. Must be detail oriented.
- Ability to proactively manage multiple, concurrent tasks.
- At least 4 of the qualifications listed in Desired Expertise.
- Experience in the Intelligence Community (IC) or Department of Defense (DoD), including experience with requirements, CONOPS and research technology transition.
DESIRED EXPERTISE:
- Experience with architectures to support large spatiotemporal data management and processing.
- Experience with the institutional review board (IRB) process for human subjects’ research and IRB approved video collection.
- Experience with development in the Open Media Processing Framework (OpenMPF).
- Experience with deployment of computer vision analytics in a large-scale framework.
- Experience managing/performing large-scale video collection, curation and annotation.
- Experience with video collection from fixed security/surveillance, airborne (e.g. drone, UAV), and ground mobile (e.g. cell phone, auto mounted, etc.) video sensors.
- Experience with image or video frame geo-localization.
Bluemont Technology & Research, Inc. (Bluemont) offers a premium benefits package. Our culture is based on treating people like you would treat yourself. The company is focused on challenging applications of cutting-edge technologies and data intensive applications. Bluemont maintains a drug-free workplace and performs background checks.
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