FYI<br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: [Friends-of-IRG] IRG hiring Image Processing Engineer<br>From: Vytas SunSpiral <vytas.sunspiral@nasa.gov><br>To: friends-of-irg@lists.nasa.gov<br>CC: <br><br><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Title: Image Processing Engineer</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Start Date: Flexible</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Contractor: SGT, Inc.</span></div><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Want
to build teraflop processing pipelines that run on NASA's
supercomputers? Want to wrangle petabytes of satellite data into
planet-scale mosaics? Want to help build ultra high-resolution digital
models of the Earth, Moon, and Mars?</span></div><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group (</span><a href="http://irg.arc.nasa.gov/"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://irg.arc.nasa.gov</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">)
has an immediate opening for a full-time IMAGE PROCESSING ENGINEER. In
this position, you will develop and improve open-source software that
supports space exploration through satellite imaging. You will also help
develop and extend NASA open-source software, including our
high-performance stereo vision tool, the "Ames Stereo Pipeline". Our
team is a mixture of individuals with diverse backgrounds in planetary
science, computer vision, and software engineering.</span></div><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Applicants
should hold a B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science, or a related field,
and have excellent software engineering and system development skills. A
strong background in UNIX (Linux) application development and
open-source tools is required. Advanced proficiency in C++ is required.</span></div><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">In addition, interest or prior knowledge in one (or more) of the following areas is greatly preferred:</span></div><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> * Computer Vision: segmentation techniques, interest point matching,</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> stereo correlation, camera geometry, or standard image operations.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> * Cartography: datums and projections.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> * Numeric Optimization: gradient descent, Gauss-Newton, and techniques to</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> handle and speed up problems with a large state vector.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> * GDAL, Eigen, and/or Boost.</span></div><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"></span><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">** TO APPLY **</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If you are interested in applying for this position, please send the following via email:</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> - current resume (PDF or text)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> - cover letter with the following info :</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Courier New';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Why are you interested in this position?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- Why are you well-suited for this position?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">-
Please provide some detail on the type and scale of projects you have
worked on and platforms-languages-libraries that you have used</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- What design/engineering methods are you familiar with?</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">- If you have links to open-source contributions you have made please send them to us.</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;"> - contact details for two (or more) references</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">to Susan Lee < <a href="mailto:SYLee@sgt-inc.com">SYLee@sgt-inc.com</a> > and Debbie Guzman <<a href="mailto:DGuzman-nse@sgt-inc.com">DGuzman-nse@sgt-inc.com</a>>.</span></div><br><div>
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