Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning Operations

August 8

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

Although this job is listed in Virginia, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

☕ Washington – Remote

Although this job is listed in Washington, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $175k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 Machine Learning Engineer

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BlackSky

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Artificial Intelligence • Security • Enterprise

BlackSky is a real-time space-based intelligence company that provides satellite imagery and AI-enabled analytics to help governments and businesses anticipate and understand changes in global conditions. Their platform, BlackSky Spectra®, offers on-demand imagery and analysis for strategic decision-making, leveraging high-frequency monitoring satellite constellations. BlackSky's services are valuable for national security, economic analysis, and situational awareness. The company delivers insights that give customers a decisive advantage by securing foresight into changing global dynamics.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• BlackSky is looking for a talented and creative Principal Software Engineer to support the development, operation, and capability evolution of Spectra AI, BlackSky’s cutting-edge AI/ML Platform. • As part of the machine learning team, you are instrumental in supporting the automated monitoring mission at BlackSky. • You will help ensure that Spectra AI produces consistent, reliable, and relevant analytics to BlackSky’s growing user base. • This position is a critical element of the BlackSky AI/ML Engineering team and is expected to work collaboratively with internal satellite development teams to ensure success. • The ideal candidate has geospatial software engineering, computer vision model deployment, operations, and testing experience; familiarity with satellite imagery or similar datasets; and success working in an agile development environment. • Additionally, the ideal candidate has demonstrated the ability to manage their own efforts over a broad scope of work as an independent contributor. • Finally, the candidate should be an independent thinker with the demonstrated ability and willingness to lean in to learn new tools, technologies, and approaches to solve new problems.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of ten years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least four years focused on geospatial imagery. • Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field. • Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures, especially for machine learning or image processing. • Strong Python or Golang proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, micro-services, geospatial, or data analytics, and cloud deployment. • Experience with distributed compute environments such as Kubernetes and Dask. • Hands on experience working with large imagery datasets including image normalization, image augmentation, raster/vector visualization, etc. • Strong ability to communicate concepts and software system results with customers, management, and the technical team, highlighting actionable insights. • Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc. • You may have some exposure to machine learning. While not a requirement, it would be helpful if you have studied or have worked with machine learning, statistics, computer vision and would enjoy working with Computer Vision subject matter experts. • The program this role will support requires Us-born citizenship.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance • BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses! • 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more • 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match • Flexible Spending Accounts • Employee Stock Purchase Program • Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs • Employer matching donations • Professional development • Mac or PC? Your choice! • Awesome swag