
Applied AI Scientist
Maxar Technologies1 hour ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$128k - $216k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven applications that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable insights and predictive intelligence.
- Build and operate end-to-end AI/ML pipelines covering data ingestion, preprocessing, feature engineering, training, evaluation, and production inference.
- Productionize reasoning models, vision-language models, and multimodal AI systems combining imagery, geospatial signals, and structured data.
- Architect training and experimentation frameworks with automated pipelines, experiment tracking, benchmarking, and reproducible evaluation.
- Create synthetic datasets and test harnesses to validate model performance, robustness, and edge-case behavior.
- Optimize models and inference systems for scalability, latency, cost efficiency, and reliability on cloud infrastructure.
- Maintain production inference systems, including monitoring, model versioning, retraining workflows, and performance tracking.
- Collaborate with domain experts, software engineers, product managers, research partners, and external organizations to deliver practical Earth AI capabilities.
Requirements
- An MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments.
- Experience designing and delivering end-to-end ML pipelines, including data processing, training automation, evaluation frameworks, and scalable inference.
- Hands-on experience developing and deploying deep learning models in areas such as vision-language models, multimodal learning, reasoning models, large language models, computer vision, or geospatial AI.
- Strong programming skills in Python and experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
- Experience building reproducible experimentation pipelines with model evaluation, dataset versioning, and experiment tracking.
- Experience deploying models into production using cloud infrastructure and containerized systems.
- Familiarity with distributed training, large-scale data processing, and model optimization techniques.
- Ability to collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams.
- Preferred experience with geospatial data, remote sensing, satellite imagery, or Earth observation systems.
- Preferred experience building or fine-tuning foundation models, multimodal models, or agentic AI systems.
- Preferred familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and large-scale AI/ML infrastructure.
- Open-source AI contributions, research publications, or patents are preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package including a 401(k) with company match.
- Mental health resources, student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.
- The position is incentive eligible, with the target determined by role scope, company performance, and individual contribution.
- The application window is three days from posting and remains open until a qualified candidate is identified.