PIR Exploitation Analyst

What Impact You'll Have

Directly support the National Air and Space Intelligence Center's (NASIC) scientific and technical intelligence mission, delivering PIR exploitation products that inform Missile Defense Agency (MDA) test planning, sensor calibration, and national-level threat characterization

Shape how emerging OPIR, GEOINT, and MASINT sensor data is fused, analyzed, and turned into actionable intelligence for warfighters, acquisition decision-makers, and policymakers

Work at the leading edge of space-based remote sensing and IR phenomenology — helping close critical gaps between raw collection and usable intelligence on foreign missile and weapons development

Contribute tradecraft and technical judgment that feeds directly into MDA test event planning, ensuring collection requirements are met and sensor performance is properly characterized

What You'll Be Owning

Apply PIR exploitation tradecraft and structured analytic workflows to process, characterize, and report on infrared sensor data and events

Perform IR sensor operations support, including data quality review, sensor performance assessment, and exploitation of thermal/spectral signatures