# Image Processing / Sensor Engineer

DescriptionDo you love solving crucial, real-world problems related to sensor systems? Are you a curious and active learner who just wants to know why? If so, we’re looking for someone like you to join our team! We are seeking a physicist, mathematician or engineer to help us develop algorithms and assess the performance of the next generation of infrared and optical sensor systems for land, air, and sea-launched interceptors. You'll influence the development of powerful sensor algorithms. Dedicated teams have opportunities to tackle vital missile defense challenges. We strive to cultivate an environment of creativity and collaboration and value finding sophisticated solutions to hard problems. As a sensor and signal processing engineer... Your primary responsibility will be to derive requirements, perform trade studies, and analyze the performance of advanced sensor systems. You will develop, implement, test and verify high-fidelity, physics-based simulations of sensors and environments. You will act as APL's representative with sponsors and contractors and will lead teams to solve difficult problems in air and missile defense Qualifications You meet our minimum qualifications for

- **Id**: 3247523
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/johns-hopkins-university-applied-physics-laboratory-image-processing-sensor-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Laurel, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-08T19:24:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T02:34:58Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 187
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6996
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Education assistance, Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: National Security, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 448741
- **Name**: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- **Domain**: jhuapl.edu
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/jhuapl>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Jibe

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 95
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 34
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 61000
- **Max usd**: 110000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 4343

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 186

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-25T19:16:23Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-01T11:39:24Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-01T15:45:35Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-03T14:03:24Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-03T21:55:53Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-04T17:24:49Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-05T14:08:42Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Filed H-1B visas in the last two years; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 3
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.9
- **P active**: 0.118
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 186
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:123, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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