Senior AI Engineer
Oligo SpaceBase Salary
$140k - $164k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain foundation models with strong spatial reasoning for spacecraft design automations.
- Design self-supervised and low-data or low-fidelity model-training schemes using limited real-world spacecraft data.
- Develop and deploy classical and learning-based automation tools to accelerate spacecraft design.
- Develop and deploy agentic VLM frameworks that convert technical documents, datasheets, and system specifications into structured engineering constraints.
- Build and train reinforcement-learning models to explore high-dimensional spacecraft design spaces across structural, thermal, orbital, and manufacturability objectives.
- Integrate AI systems with Ansys, GMAT, Thermal Desktop, OpenCascade, CadQuery, and SolidWorks-based CAD environments.
- Collaborate with spacecraft engineers and flight software developers to validate software in thermal chambers, vibration tables, and orbital missions.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, ML/AI, or a related technical field.
- Significant ML/AI experience through academic or industry research, personal projects, or internships beyond coursework.
- Significant classical algorithm development experience through academic or industry research, personal projects, or internships beyond coursework.
- At least 4 years of experience building advanced ML/AI systems, including LLM agent frameworks, complex reinforcement-learning algorithms, transformer architectures, or data- and compute-efficient architectures.
- Strong proficiency in Python, PyTorch, standard Python libraries, C++, and C#.
- Ability to assess tradeoffs among simulation fidelity, inference speed, and manufacturability.
- Preferred experience with physics-informed deep learning models and PDE-grounded neural networks.
- Preferred experience adapting enterprise software such as Ansys, SolidWorks, or Fusion360 beyond API usage.
- Hands-on hardware prototyping, building, and debugging experience is preferred, especially with microcontrollers, sensors, or test rigs.
- Aerospace industry experience and familiarity with spacecraft concepts, astrodynamics, or control systems are preferred.
- Familiarity with data and differential privacy methods for deep learning is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance, including Platinum medical coverage.
- Catering provided on-site every day.
- On-site role in Hawthorne, California.
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About Oligo Space
Oligo is a hardware, software, and AI research company building the automated engineering and production systems required to translate an objective directly into the physical system built to accomplish it in space. We begin with application-specific spacecraft, each designed and built around the precise payloads, instruments, mission objectives, and operating conditions it must support. As these systems advance, we will apply our technology beyond conventional spacecraft to engineer unique platforms, surface machinery, and the broader physical infrastructure humanity will need beyond Earth. We are now filling the manifest for a larger ~300 kg mission planned for the end of 2027. Alongside these missions, we are working with a small number of companies to define new space-based applications and determine the physical systems required to make them operational.