Scientific Photographer

This posting is for a contract assignment and is not a full-time employment offer with Boeing. Candidates selected for roles will be employed as contract workers through a Boeing approved 3rd party for the duration of the specified project

Join Boeing’s innovative APEX team, where we specialize in reconstructing highly accurate as-built 360-degree imagery of Boeing products. Our work supports critical functions across engineering, maintenance, and other operational teams by delivering precise visual records — dirt, defects, and all. This role is essential in maintaining the integrity and fidelity of Boeing’s visual documentation.

Position Summary

As an APEX Retoucher, you will be responsible for reconstructing and refining 360-degree imagery to create faithful, detailed visual records of Boeing products. This role requires meticulous attention to detail, a strong understanding of image compositing, and adherence to strict quality and process standards. You will work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, stitching specialists, and QA to ensure every image accurately represents the product as delivered, without “cleaning up” or altering defects.

Key Responsibilities

• Image Reconstruction: Perform detailed retouching of 360-degree imagery cubes and equirectangular panoramas, focusing on compositing source images to correct errors such as stitch shifts, lens flare, sensor dust, and other capture or stitching artifacts.
• Quality Assurance Collaboration: Work closely with QA teams to address markups and rework requests, ensuring all errors are corrected to meet Boeing’s high standards.
• Nadir Compositing: Skillfully composite out tripod shadows and other obstructions in downshot images using offset captures or, when necessary, creative painting and cloning.
• Cross-Cube Error Management: Identify and mark cross-cube errors for correction during rework phases, maintaining alignment and seamless stitching across cube edges.
• File and Records Management: Maintain organized local and server-based records of working PSDs, equirectangulars, and project notes until project delivery.
• Process Adherence: Follow detailed APEX retouching workflows, including software setup, project assignment, asset downloading, retouching, rework, and final delivery steps.
• Time Management: Manage workload efficiently to meet time targets, typically completing a standard FOM scene (6 cubes) within 4-8 hours, while maintaining quality.
• Continuous Learning: Engage with onboarding materials, training, and the retouching wiki to stay current with processes, tools, and terminology.

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop with strong skills in compositing, layering, and non-destructive editing.
• Experience working with high-resolution panoramic imagery, preferably 360-degree or spherical panoramas.
• Strong understanding of color management, specifically North American Prepress 2 color settings.
• Ability to interpret and work with complex image file structures including PSD cubes, TIFs, DNGs, and equirectangular panoramas.
• Familiarity with 360 stitching software (e.g., PTGui) and HDR image stacking processes is a plus.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify subtle image errors and stitching artifacts.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple scenes and projects simultaneously.
• Effective communication skills to collaborate with team members, QA, and technical support.
• Ability to work independently and proactively seek assistance when needed.

Pay Rate Range

47 - 52 USD hourly

Benefits Information

• Optional Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.