Staff Computer Vision AIML Engineer
Aurora, CO - USA
Job Summary
The Staff Computer Vision AI/ML Engineer leads the research development optimization and deployment of AI/ML-based computer vision solutions for remote sensing applications. The role focuses on Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) multimodal data fusion deep learning image processing and cloud-based deployment. This position also provides technical leadership by guiding researchers and software developers and helping mature AI/ML capabilities from prototype through operational deployment.
- Lead a team of developers and researchers implementing AI/ML algorithms for computer vision and remote sensing.
- Analyze and preprocess large remote sensing datasets.
- Research supervised and unsupervised Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) solutions.
- Research multimodal data fusion for ATR across diverse data-collection scenarios.
- Train optimize and deploy deep-learning computer vision models.
- Apply AI/ML techniques to solve computer vision problems across multiple domains.
- Evaluate emerging research and publications related to AI/ML and computer vision.
- Translate complex technical concepts into understandable information for government customers.
- Apply AI/ML research to defense and commercial applications.
- Guide and mentor junior engineers researchers and software developers.
- Collaborate with program management to define project scope schedules and milestones.
- Select appropriate AI/ML approaches and iterate or pivot strategies to improve performance.
- Develop technical documentation code documentation capability descriptions and user guides.
- Support the development and growth of AI/ML technical capabilities and strategy.
- Active TS/SCI security clearance.
- Bachelors degree in Data Science AI/ML Computer Science or a related field.
- 10 years of professional experience preferably in software development or data science.
- 5 years of experience developing and training AI/ML models.
- Experience leading interdisciplinary teams of researchers and software developers.
- Experience working with program managers to define project scope schedules and milestones.
- Experience selecting evaluating and improving AI/ML approaches.
- Strong Python programming experience.
- Experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow Keras PyTorch Lightning scikit-learn scikit-image or OpenCV.
- Experience developing convolutional or transformer-based computer vision models.
- Strong technical communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to prepare and present technical reports to engineering teams and customers.
- MS or PhD in Machine Learning Computer Science Computer Vision Mathematics or a related field.
- Experience with Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) DINO knowledge distillation or BYOL.
- Experience with image segmentation super resolution image denoising image restoration and Multi-INT fusion.
- Experience with Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs).
- Experience with SAR EO or OPIR image-processing chains.
- Experience with overhead imagery datasets such as xView SpaceNet MSTAR HRSID DOTA and similar datasets.
- Familiarity with AWS services such as EC2 S3 and Lambda.
- Experience with code data and model version-control processes.
- Experience with Linux.
- Experience with tracking fusion and pattern-of-life algorithms.
- Experience with application deployment virtualization and containerization.
- Experience supporting proposal development and writing.
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.