Forward Deployment Engineer - Imagery Analyst

Position: Imagery Analyst Location: On-site with client, Delhi Forward Deployed Engineer (Image Analyst), Geospatial Role at a glance Title Forward Deployed Engineer (Image Analyst), Geospatial track Experience 0-4 years Reports to Deployment Strategist Streams Pre-sales evaluation; post-sales sustenance and support Users Defence and intelligence Location Delhi, with on-site deployment in secure, air-gapped facilities and regular short trips for customer evaluations Openings 2 Joining Immediate preferred Candidates with up to 2 years' experience join as Associate Forward Deployed Engineer.

Candidates with 2-4 years may be considered for Forward Deployed Engineer, in line with our career framework. About Galax. Eye Galax. Eye is a space technology company building OptoSAR, which fuses SAR and EO imagery to strengthen ISR capability for defence and intelligence users. Alongside it, we offer AI-powered image and decision intelligence solutions that fuse multiple sensors into one secure, air-gapped and robust system for intelligence fusion and targeting.

Role summary

As a Forward Deployed Engineer (Image Analyst), you will work embedded with defence and intelligence users, turning their operational requirements into imagery analytics workflows our platform can deliver. You will support customer evaluations before a sale and keep live deployments running well after it. You will work closely with the Deployment Strategist, senior FDEs and our product team.

Your analysis and field feedback directly shape how users detect, track and act on what matters to them.

Key responsibilities

Across both streams

• Learn the platform through supervised deployments, then take on deployments independently
• Analyse and exploit SAR and EO imagery for user needs: object detection, change detection, classification and reporting
• Tune detection and classification parameters against real operational data
• Carry out GIS and DEM work: layers, coordinate systems, raster and vector processing
• Research new use-cases and add them to the team's use-case library
• Act as the first point of technical contact for your assigned user segment
• Give the Deployment Strategist technical inputs for proposals, reports and documentation
• Follow information-handling and security protocols at all times
• Feed field observations back to the product team Pre-sales evaluation
• Prepare and run demonstrations, trials and short evaluations at user sites
• Build sample analyses that show how the platform meets a stated requirement
• Document evaluation results and technical inputs for proposals. Post-sales sustenance and support
• Keep live deployments running in air-gapped environments, including updates and troubleshooting on site
• Produce regular analysis reports for users
• Resolve user issues and escalate platform problems with clear, reproducible detail Must-have
• Degree in remote sensing, geoinformatics, geography, physics, electronics, computer science or a related field
• Hands-on interpretation of SAR and/or EO imagery, through work, projects or research
• Working knowledge of QGIS or ArcGIS
• Python for geospatial processing (e.g. GDAL, rasterio, geopandas)
• Clear, concise written reporting Good-to-have None of these are required. If you have up to 2 years' experience and meet the must-haves, we encourage you to apply. Exposure to InSAR or polarimetry Experience with AIS data ML-based object detection on imagery Dashboarding (e.g. Power BI) Working conditions and eligibility
• Based in Delhi, with on-site deployment in secure, air-gapped facilities where connectivity is limited
• Regular travel to user sites for short evaluation periods
• Background verification and police verification will be required, as per client protocols Requirements Degree in remote sensing, geo-informatics, geography, physics, electronics, computer science or a related field
• Hands-on interpretation of SAR and/or EO imagery, through work, projects or research
• Working knowledge of QGIS or ArcGIS
• Python for geospatial processing (e.g. GDAL, rasterio, geopandas)
• Clear, concise written reporting Benefits Standard benefits as per norms.