
Senior AI Engineer
LeoLabs, Inc.9 days ago
Base Salary
$200k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable AI/ML systems for space domain awareness and customer-facing insights.
- Develop feature engineering pipelines, training datasets, model evaluation workflows, and production-grade machine learning models.
- Deploy, monitor, optimize, and continuously improve models in real-time or near-real-time production environments.
- Work with large-scale distributed sensor, orbital, telemetry, and geospatial datasets.
- Partner with data engineering to improve data quality, scalability, and pipeline reliability.
- Lead Agentic AI initiatives and establish best practices for model development, MLOps, reproducibility, and lifecycle management.
- Mentor junior team members and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, engineering, mathematics, physics, or equivalent experience.
- 5–7 years of experience in software engineering, machine learning engineering, or applied AI roles.
- Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. personnel security clearance and required ITAR authorizations.
- Strong proficiency in Python and modern machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn.
- Advanced SQL and large-scale data processing experience.
- Proven experience developing and deploying production-grade machine learning models.
- Experience with distributed data platforms such as Databricks and Spark.
- Strong knowledge of statistical modeling, machine learning algorithms, experimental design, feature engineering, and training workflows.
- Familiarity with MLOps practices, model versioning, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Up-to-date familiarity with Agentic AI developments and strong communication and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred experience building Agentic AI systems for time series, anomaly detection, or predictive modeling.
- Preferred familiarity with Databricks ML, MLflow, Kafka, or Spark Structured Streaming.
- Preferred background in sensor, telemetry, geospatial, orbital, aerospace, physics, or applied mathematics datasets.
- Preferred experience with real-time or near-real-time model deployment, technical leadership, and mentoring junior data scientists.
Benefits
- Flexible remote or hybrid work opportunities.
- Unlimited paid time off for most roles.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Competitive salary, equity packages, bonus, and stock options.
- Opportunity to work on complex space operations, defense, and security missions with real-world impact.
- Access to commercial space operations and defense innovation.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringML Engineering