Principal Product Engineer - National Imagery

Overview

You’re ready to shape the future of image analysis for the defense and intelligence community. You thrive on technical leadership, guiding teams through complex challenges and setting the vision for innovative GIS solutions. You enjoy mentoring others, influencing best practices, and making decisions that impact products across domains. You will design, test, document, and deploy innovative software solutions for the defense and intelligence communities that apply scientific principles in photogrammetry, remote sensing, and AI into innovative geospatial software capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and contribute to the implementation of significant subsystems and applications within ArcGIS
• Provide technical leadership and vision, influencing design, use cases, testing, and deployment strategies
• Lead the articulation and realization of innovative designs for new GIS capabilities and user experiences
• Define and refine best practices for test case preparation, automation, and quality assessment
• Deliver advanced technical workshops at industry events and provide onsite support to users in critical situations
• Mentor and guide team members, managing project timelines, scope, and dependencies; may serve as Scrum Master or Product Owner
• Collaborate across teams to ensure high standards of software quality, usability, and performance
• Respond to high-priority technical support issues and develop new methods to address complex workflows

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering experience working on COTS or GOTS software products, with a track record of technical leadership and innovation
• Recognized expertise in one or more aspects of product engineering, with significant contributions to subsystems, applications, or domains
• Demonstrated ability to lead the design, implementation, and validation of complex GIS software solutions
• Deep understanding of applied test methods, automation, and quality assessment for large-scale software releases
• Experience managing project timelines, scope, and dependencies, and providing technical leadership to project teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with experience leading technical workshops and presenting at industry events
• Able to work with controlled unclassified information (CUI)
• U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain a U.S. Top Secret clearance with SCI access
• Bachelor’s degree in geography, engineering, remote sensing, photogrammetry, or a related field

Recommended Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in geography, engineering, remote sensing, photogrammetry, or a related field
• Experience in the defense and/or intelligence communities
• Proficiency in modern development languages (Python, C#, etc.) for validating GIS functionality and developing advanced sample applications
• Hands-on imagery experience across multiple modalities
• Familiarity with the NITF, GeoTIFF, and CADRG formats and specifications
• Experience with ArcGIS Pro, ENVI, Socet GXP, Erdas, or RemoteView
• Experience as a Product Owner, Scrum Master, or System Engineer for major software projects

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