Senior/Principal Computer Scientist - Remote Sensing Systems, Onsite

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<b>What Your Job Will Be Like</b><br/><br/>As a software engineer in this mission-focused R&D environment, you will help design and develop software for high'throughput, high¿volume data processing that supports real-time decision-making. You will join a collaborative, multidisciplinary team that delivers creative solutions for sophisticated remote sensing and satellite data systems¿contributing directly to Sandia's national security mission.<br/><br/>On any given day you will be expected to perform the following:<br/><ul><li>Develop software solutions and algorithms for remote sensing systems, including the capture, processing, exploitation, visualization, and distribution of real-time satellite sensor data.</li><li>Collaborate with architects, developers, technical leads, customers, and end users to collect requirements, design solutions, and deliver extensible software applications.</li><li>Analyze existing systems and develop new solutions that push the state of what is possible.</li><li>Propose and lead image processing and data-centric research and development projects.</li><li>Engage with diverse specialists in areas such as data fusion, signal and image processing, analytics, cloud computing, machine learning, modeling and simulation, service architectures, data management, and visualization.</li></ul><br/>Due to the nature of the work, the selected applicant must be able to work onsite. This position requires limited travel.<br/><br/><b>Salary Range</b><br/><br/>$117,500 - $235,700<br/><br/>*Salary range is estimated, and actual salary will be determined after consideration of the selected candidate's experience and qualifications, and application of any approved geographic salary differential.<br/><br/><b>Qualifications We Require</b><br/><br/><ul><li>A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of directly relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of directly relevant education and engineering or scientific experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform independent research and development.</li><li> Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q and SCI security clearance.</li></ul><br/><br/><b>Qualifications We Desire</b><br/><br/>The ideal R&D S&E, Computer Science candidate for Sandia National Laboratories will in addition possess the following:<br/><ul><li>Graduate degree in Computer Science or a directly related field with extensive programming experience.</li><li>Demonstrated software development skills and familiarity with modern software development practices and tools (e.g., Agile).</li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills, ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and a passion to improve and expand technical skills.</li></ul><br/>Also, for this posting we are seeking individuals with the following experience:<br/><ul><li>Experience in C++, Python, GitLab, and Object Oriented programming.</li><li>Experience utilizing Kubernetes.</li><li>Ability to work independently for problem solving</li><li>Thorough knowledge of and experience with designing, planning, and executing research, design, and development projects.</li><li>Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with implementing Sandia policies affecting research, design, and development activities, projects, or initiatives.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to team across disciplines.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to conduct analysis and research, design and architect, implement, test and integrate and deploy software systems to improve our customer's decision-making and communication capabilities.</li><li>Ability to research and develop novel means to perform computations, make these accessible, understandable and useful to users, and to improve decisions.</li><li>Ability to identify and implement best means to perform computations for a given R&D use case.</li><li>Ability to develops novel ways/pipelines for humans and machines to compute, think, discover, and conclude/decide.</li><li>Ability to model behaviors that reflect Sandia's core values.</li></ul><br/><br/><b>About Our Team</b><br/><br/>The Real Time Data Processing Department develops software, algorithms, and distributed computer systems for real-time extraction of static and dynamic events in a remote sensing domain. Skills within the department include software engineering; signal and image processing; statistical inference; data fusion; image registration; pattern recognition; radiometric calibration; compressive sensing; human-computer interfaces; data visualization; and design, implementation, deployment, operational user support, and maintenance of collaborative decision support systems. <br/><br/><b>Posting Duration</b><br/><br/>This posting will be open for application submissions for a minimum of three (3) calendar days, including the 'posting date'. Sandia reserves the right to extend the posting date at any time.

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