AI/ML Software Engineer
Maxar Technologies1 day ago
Westminster, CO, USASenior
Base Salary
$105k - $169k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable reinforcement learning, optimization, and sequential decision-making algorithms for satellite sensor and constellation tasking and planning.
- Build high-fidelity simulation and evaluation environments for training and validating autonomous planning strategies.
- Develop multi-objective optimization pipelines balancing coverage, revisit rate, latency, resource utilization, revenue, and mission success metrics.
- Collaborate with aerospace engineers, mission operators, software engineers, and product teams to translate mission requirements into deployable AI systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a strongly related field.
- At least 5 years of software development experience with recent use of modern AI-assisted technologies such as Augment or Codex.
- Strong Java programming skills and experience working in a Spring Boot microservices environment.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including automated testing, version control, containerized deployment, and CI/CD.
- Experience developing machine learning and/or optimization systems.
- U.S. Citizen or other qualifying U.S. Person status as specified in the posting.
- Preferred: additional degrees or certifications in Data Science, Aerospace Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
- Preferred: experience with orbital mechanics, satellite systems, remote sensing, mission operations, collection planning, probabilistic modeling, uncertainty estimation, Bayesian optimization, GPU acceleration, distributed training infrastructure, autonomous systems, or multi-agent planning architectures.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- Incentive-eligible position with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results.
- Onsite work in Herndon, VA, or Westminster, CO, with core in-office days Tuesday through Thursday; additional days may occasionally be required for customer or mission activities.
Tech Stack
JavaSpring Boot
Categories
About Maxar Technologies
Maxar Technologies builds and operates commercial Earth‑observation satellites and sells high‑resolution imagery, 3D products, and geospatial analytics to government, defense, and enterprise customers. Headquartered in Westminster, Colorado, the company was formed in 2017 from the merger of DigitalGlobe and MDA and was acquired by Advent International in 2023; it supplies data for national security, mapping, and disaster response, and licenses imagery through subscription and platform APIs.