Principal AI Engineer, Machine Learning Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $185k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 AI Engineer

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BlackSky

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

Logistics • Consulting • Defense

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.

📋 Description

• Lead full-lifecycle model engineering from problem formulation and dataset curation through training, validation, deployment, and error analysis • Drive model robustness and domain adaptation for challenging satellite conditions, including off-nadir angles, low light, seasonal variations, weather distortions, dense environments, and cross-sensor domain shifts • Ensure models are trained, versioned, deployed, monitored, and maintained reliably in production • Communicate technical progress, risks, and technology stack to cross-functional leadership and Product partners • Contribute to proposals and white papers • Provide technical mentorship, lead design reviews and experiment planning, and foster technical excellence across the engineering team • Perform other job-related duties as assigned • Report directly to the Director of Innovative Solutions • Design, scale, deploy, and automate computer vision and machine learning architectures for space-based intelligence and real-time geospatial analytics • Optimize edge and cloud compute environments and deliver resilient capabilities

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including at least four years developing computer vision or machine learning solutions for geospatial, remote sensing, or similarly complex imagery • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience • Expert-level proficiency in Python • Demonstrated experience developing deep learning systems using PyTorch or comparable modern ML frameworks • Experience designing, training, evaluating, and deploying production-grade computer vision models for object detection, segmentation, change detection, image classification, or time-series analysis • Strong experience with remote sensing imagery and geospatial data challenges • Hands-on experience building geospatial data and CV pipelines using Rasterio, GDAL, GeoPandas, Shapely, xarray, Zarr, or similar technologies • Experience taking CV capabilities from experimentation through production, including model evaluation, deployment, and performance optimization • Experience developing and operating ML workloads in AWS, including GPU-based training and inference • Strong technical communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders • Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship without direct management authority • Work this role supports requires holding US citizenship • For ITAR compliance: must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations

🏖️ 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 • 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 • Choice of Mac or PC • Awesome swag