[OSGeo-Jobs] FWD: Image Processing Engineer - NASA Ames Robotics Group (Moffett Field, CA)

[Mateusz Loskot]

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http://design.stanford.edu/archive/0337.html

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From: Kristin Burns <kristin.burns_at_stanford.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:46:57 -0700

Title: Image Processing Engineer
Location: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Start Date: Flexible
Contractor: SGT, Inc.

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?

NASA Ames Intelligent Robotics Group
(<http://irg.arc.nasa.gov/>http://irg.arc.nasa.gov) 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.

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.

In addition, interest or prior knowledge in one (or more) of the
following areas is greatly preferred:

  * Computer Vision: segmentation techniques, interest point matching,
     stereo correlation, camera geometry, or standard image operations.
  * Cartography: datums and projections.
  * Numeric Optimization: gradient descent, Gauss-Newton, and techniques to
     handle and speed up problems with a large state vector.
  * GDAL, Eigen, and/or Boost.

** TO APPLY **
If you are interested in applying for this position, please send the
following via email:
- current resume (PDF or text)
- cover letter with the following info :

-Why are you interested in this position?

- Why are you well-suited for this position?

- Please provide some detail on the type and scale of projects you
have worked on and platforms-languages-libraries that you have used

- What design/engineering methods are you familiar with?

- If you have links to open-source contributions you have made please
send them to us.

- contact details for two (or more) references
to Susan Lee < SYLee_at_sgt-inc.com > and Debbie Guzman
<DGuzman-nse_at_sgt-inc.com>.
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