Staff SW Engineer, Machine Learning

Staff SW Engineer, Machine Learning About Us: BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company

We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets and events from around the globe

BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy

BlackSky 's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly

Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun

This is a remote role with a focus on integrating machine learning into automated, remotely deployed, machine learning systems

The job requires the ability to understand a variety of challenging ML tasks in the GIS computer vision, time series, and natural language domains

In addition, you will help develop model pre-training and fine-tuning approaches for configurable ML training pipelines

While the primary focus is on computer vision, some work with LLM and VLM may be required

You will work closely with the BlackSky analytics team to port existing analytics into a remote ML environment and report to the Principal Systems Architect

Responsibilities: Design and implement solutions for internal and external customers that exploit traditional machine learning and novel deep learning for next-generation satellite imagery analytics