Engineer Principal/Staff Consultant - EOIR Payload Calibration

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Engineer Principal/Staff Consultant - EOIR Payload Calibration
This engineering position will focus on developing and implementing the calibration solutions necessary to achieve world class EO/IR remote sensor performance.
What You'll Do:

• Analyze optical payload and sub-system data quality requirements and decompose as necessary to enable the related design, build, test, and verification activities.
• Formulate and execute radiometric, spectral, and other calibration strategies to achieve the required mission data quality.
• Develop and utilize expertise in remote sensing missions, payload design, component hardware technologies, calibration sources, calibration techniques, and uncertainty analysis.
• Investigate novel calibration approaches and propose internal or customer funded research and development projects.
• Create and manage physics-based calibration models and budgets.
• Collaborate with other engineering disciplines (systems, optical, mechanical, electrical, software, test, etc.) in the planning and execution of calibration tasks.
• Be a program's calibration lead and interface and support its chief systems engineer.
• Manage an interdisciplinary team of engineers, schedule, and budget for calibration hardware.
• Prepare and give presentations to peers, management, and customers.
• Mentor other engineers within the company facing related challenges.
• Maintain a regular and predictable work schedule.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships within the department, the Strategic Business Units, Strategic Capabilities Units and the Company. Interact appropriately with others in order to maintain a positive and productive work environment.
• Perform other duties as necessary.

What You'll Need:

• Engineer Principal - BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 12 or more years related experience.
• Staff Consultant - BS degree or higher in Engineering or a related technical field is required plus 16 or more years related experience.
• Each higher-level degree, i.e., Master's Degree or Ph.D., may substitute for two years of experience. Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education. Degree must be from a university, college, or school which is accredited by an agency recognized by the US Secretary of Education, US Department of Education.
• Degree in Physics, or Optics is preferred with related experience in either remote sensors, optics, detectors, light sources, or metrology.
• Previous optics/physics training with an emphasis on laboratory or other high accuracy measurement experience.
• Experience in EO/IR data analysis and algorithm development is desired.
• Experience with Matlab or comparable software.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills with experience presenting complex technical issues to independent experts and senior customer representatives.
• Flexibility and capacity to work on multiple dynamic problems simultaneously.

On-Site Work Environment: This position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site three or more days each normally scheduled week in the primary work location. Travel and local commute between Ball campuses and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.
Working Conditions:

• Ball Aerospace is a drug-free workplace, which is imperative to the health and safety of all employees and is required as a condition of receiving contracts from federal agencies. Please remember that regardless of the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and other states, possession and use continues to be illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. This includes the use of some CBD products. A post-offer, pre-employment drug test is a condition of employment.
• Work is performed in an office, laboratory, production floor, or cleanroom, outdoors or remote research environment.
• May occasionally work in production work centers where use of protective equipment and gear is required.
• May access other facilities in various weather conditions.

A security clearance or access with Polygraph is not required to be eligible for this position. However, the applicant must be willing and eligible for submission, depending on program requirements, after an offer is accepted and must be able to maintain the applicable clearance/access.
Relocation for this position is available.
Compensation & Benefits:

• HIRING SALARY RANGE FOR ENGINEER PRINCIPAL: $150,000 - $189,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
• HIRING SALARY RANGE FOR STAFF CONSULTANT: $168,000 - $211,500 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.)
• This position includes a competitive benefits package. For details, copy and paste https://bit.ly/3pNSnxv into your browser or visit our careers site.

US CITIZENSHIP IS REQUIRED
Ball Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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