Architecting Space Perception for Missile Defense

True Anomaly, Inc.; Laguna Beach (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class healthcare

Flexible Time Off

Lunch and snacks

401(k) retirement plan

Equity

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks engineers to architect and deploy perception systems for space-based missile defense. You will transform multi-band EO/IR imagery into actionable understanding, sustaining custody of tracking across challenging conditions and tight timing budgets.

The role emphasizes end-to-end perception stack development, from phenomenology and algorithm design to flight software integration, with on-site collaboration in California. U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer science, or a similar discipline.
• 2+ years of experience implementing image processing and tracking algorithms.
• Working knowledge of radiometry and infrared phenomenology.

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture for the image processing, multi-object tracking and discrimination pipelines for space-based missile defense.
• Design and implement multi-band EO/IR image processing in C++: non-uniformity correction, radiometric calibration, band registration, frame stacking, adaptive detection and PSF photometry.
• Develop physics-based features from first principles, from the thermal and optical signatures of each object.
• Model the phenomenology that drives the signatures: solar and Earth illumination, thermal response through sunlight and eclipse, viewing geometry, glints, and optics and detector effects.
• Design robust tracking for many closely spaced objects.
• Perform statistical analysis to characterize and verify algorithm performance, including Monte Carlo campaigns and error budgets.
• Test and verify your algorithms in software- and hardware-in-the-loop simulation with high-fidelity scene generation.
• Work with the software team to integrate your algorithms into flight software.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Image processing

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics / electrical / aerospace / CS

Job description

True Anomaly, Inc. seeks engineers to architect and deploy perception systems for space-based missile defense. You will transform multi-band EO/IR imagery into actionable understanding, sustaining custody of tracking across challenging conditions and tight timing budgets.

The role emphasizes end-to-end perception stack development, from phenomenology and algorithm design to flight software integration, with on-site collaboration in California. U.S.