Remote Sensing Software Engineer

Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies.

Altamira is searching for a Remote Sensing Software Engineer with OPIR experience for the NGA RDC Team in the Dayton, Ohio area:

Position Overview 

As a Senior Remote Sensing Software Engineer, you will architect advanced SDA and remote sensing exploitation pipelines, guide technical direction, and lead multi-disciplinary teams building high-fidelity space observation analytics. You will shape next‑generation tools that integrate imaging physics, ML-based behavior inference, and multi‑sensor fusion.

You’ll join a collaborative technical delivery team where you’ll contribute to secure, reliable, user‑centric tools that accelerate mission outcomes.

• Architect end‑to‑end remote sensing processing systems for EO/IR missions
• Lead development of radiometric and spectral response models
• Oversee advanced imaging algorithms including multi-frame super-resolution, deconvolution, target phenomenology detection, and low-SNR enhancement
• Direct ML‑based anomaly detection, behavior classification, and object discrimination frameworks
• Design multi-sensor fusion pipelines integrating GEOINT, Radar, RF, and optical data using Bayesian or ML-based methods
• Lead trajectory estimation and 3D kinematic modeling, including IOD, parallax exploitation, and uncertainty quantification
• Architect scalable scientific computing solutions using Python, C++, CUDA, HPC clusters, or cloud-native platforms
• Mentor junior engineers and help set technical road maps in collaboration with client and mission leadership

Required Skills: 

• 8+ years of experience in remote sensing, image/signal processing, or GEOINT data exploitation
• Experience with orbital mechanics, satellite characterization, Domain-specific applications or SDA operational workflows
• Experience with Python, scientific Python packages or other Object-oriented programming languages such as C++ or JavaScript
• Experience architecting with large-scale software environments (such as CUDA, HPC or cloud)
• Experience with ML systems for imagery processing, target detection, tracking, or object classification
• Bachelor’s degree in related STEM field
• TS/SCI clearance, and willingness to take a polygraph

Desired Skills: 

• Experience with remote sensing systems in support of missile warning/tracking missions
• Experience with building/training synthetic models for simulation‑aided training
• Experience integrating EO/IR, RF, Radar, or GEOINT tracks into fused solutions
• Record of publications, whitepapers, presentations or mission briefings
• Experience with uncertainty quantification, Kalman filtering, or tracking algorithms
• Experience with AI‑augmented development workflows or agentic tools
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field