8 days ago
Pasadena, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$152k - $189k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop mapping and map-relative navigation capabilities for Moonfall, Skyfall, and SOLO.
- Collaborate with commercial partners on Artemis/HLS vision-based lunar-landing solutions.
- Apply machine learning expertise in partnership with scientists on ROSES opportunities.
- Design and implement computer vision and machine learning solutions for autonomous spacecraft navigation.
- Develop novel training architectures and bridge foundational research with mature JPL flight software.
- Seek funding opportunities to support an independent research agenda aligned with Section objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, physics, computer science, or a related field with at least 6 years of experience; alternatively, a master’s degree with at least 4 years or a Ph.D. with at least 2 years of related experience.
- Extensive understanding and broad application of machine learning and computer vision principles, theories, concepts, and techniques.
- Proven ability to adapt theoretical machine learning models to unique computer vision problems and develop novel training architectures.
- Strong software skills in C++ and Python.
- Ability to work independently with significant technical latitude to deliver functional capabilities.
- Preferred qualifications include proposal development experience, relevant high-impact publications, estimation or control theory, multidisciplinary teamwork, and strong presentation skills.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, wellbeing, and retirement plans.
- Paid time off, learning opportunities, rideshare, childcare, flexible scheduling, and parental leave.
- Benefits-eligible employees receive benefits effective the first day of the month coincident with or immediately following their start date.
- Full-time role in Pasadena, California.
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About NASA JPL
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Pasadena, CA, managed by Caltech. It designs, builds, and operates robotic spacecraft and science instruments for NASA, and develops ground systems like the Deep Space Network; notable missions include the Mars rovers and the Voyager probes. Founded in 1936, JPL is publicly funded and focuses on planetary, Earth, and astrophysics research and flight operations.