Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Radar & Remote Sensing
NT Concepts2 months ago
Chantilly, VA, USASenior
Base Salary
$131k - $244k/yr
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical liaison across radar engineering, machine learning, software engineering, and operations teams.
- Develop and maintain radar and SAR simulation pipelines, including synthetic data generation, scene and return modeling, and validation workflows.
- Build end-to-end ML pipelines for radar tasks covering preprocessing, training, evaluation, versioning, packaging, and deployment handoff.
- Analyze radar, 3D model, EO/IR, and other sensing-related datasets.
- Create radar products and technical deliverables, including APIs, data schemas, containers, documentation, and integration guidance.
- Configure and optimize local and remote GPU compute, storage, networking, containerization, and benchmarking environments.
- Support ML training and inference on constrained or embedded compute platforms, including systems involving RFSoCs and FPGAs.
- Collaborate with RF and hardware partners on RF code processing, radar outputs, and deployable radar hardware productization.
- Help deploy and maintain web applications and internal tools on classified or restricted networks.
- Contribute to technical writing, SBIR proposals, and system documentation.
Requirements
- Deep experience with Synthetic Aperture Radar, non-imaging radar, remote sensing, or signal processing.
- Strong understanding of radar and SAR fundamentals, including I/Q data, complex-valued data, simulation, image formation, radar-to-image pipelines, and coherent versus incoherent processing.
- Proven experience with radar or remote-sensing simulations.
- Strong proficiency with scientific Python libraries including NumPy, PyTorch, SciPy, Matplotlib, and Jupyter.
- Experience building end-to-end ML pipelines and using GPU compute, CUDA, NVIDIA tooling, remote GPU servers, and local GPU systems.
- Ability to explain radar and ML concepts to technical and non-technical audiences and produce clear technical documentation and deliverables.
- Adherence to software engineering practices including clean code, testing, and version control.
- Preferred experience includes Xpatch simulations, CAD or artistic 3D modeling, EO/IR or multi-sensor fusion, adversarial imaging AI, RFSoCs, FPGAs, HLS, quantization, edge deployment, local GPU clusters or eGPU configurations, RF hardware partners, hardware-in-the-loop systems, LLMs, LoRA fine-tuning, local model deployment, container computing, and orchestration.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.
Benefits
- Virginia pay range is $131,376-$243,984 USD.
- Chantilly, Virginia work arrangement is onsite Monday through Thursday and remote on Friday.
- The company offers a benefits program, professional growth opportunities, skill development, and a collaborative engineering culture.
- The role involves mission-driven national-security projects and classified or restricted-network environments.
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About NT Concepts
NT Concepts is a privately held IT services firm that builds data-driven software and cloud solutions for U.S. national security agencies. It delivers application development, geospatial analytics, AI/ML, and data engineering services through federal contracts to customers across the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, the company focuses on mission systems modernization and enterprise analytics at classified and unclassified scales.