Senior IR Spectroscopist

Senior IR Spectroscopist

Kalman and Company is seeking to hire an IR Spectroscopist. This will be a full-time position with on-site support required in Addison, TX and the Dallas Metro Area. Advanced training, experience, and knowledge in the field of infrared (IR) spectroscopy as demonstrated in the resume by a minimum of an advanced degree in applicable, scientific field.

Responsibilities:

Should have thorough knowledge of spectral systems such as an FTIR interferometer and software (Pattern Recognition) to implement an infrared line scanner (IRLS) unit. The candidate will need to be able to identify infrared spectral signatures of the atmosphere and have a clear understanding of the spectral signatures present in a compound PNNL library.

Requirements:

• Operations, set-up, calibration, diagnostics, and inventory of IR instrumentation and materials
• Advise the government client on spectroscopy instrumentation employment and results analysis
• Conduct spectroscopy analysis, including report generation and presentation to senior leadership
• Experience using GDAL routines for GIS applications
• Experience and knowledge in developing GIS routines to support both Google Earth and ESRI data products. This knowledge is used for the implementation into various display products that can be web based or native ESRI tools.
• Ability to develop training and test sets for application to various AI models

Minimum Requirements:

• US Citizenship is required
• Experience with novel IR background suppression using spectral digital filtering and pattern recognition
• Experience in software trouble shooting airborne communications and networking
• PhD-Level degree in Chemistry or a physical science and a minimum of 5 years of documented experience in IR spectroscopy techniques

Preferred:

• Knowledge of software development, including C++
• Knowledge of ENVI code for development of raster-based applications
• Knowledge of networking and communication system operating and troubleshooting

• Experience in FORTRAN software for computational routines, knowledge of interfacing ENVI code with C++ calling routines
• Knowledge to develop routines for AI software including methods such as multiple discriminant analysis, neural networking, and the use of packages such as AI Google Vertex AI, TensorFlow, deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN), and recurrent neural networks (RNN)