Senior Applied AI Scientist - Geospatial & Multimodal ML

MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Mental health resources

Student loan repayment assistance

Adoption reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Vantor is seeking an experienced AI/ML engineer to design and deploy AI-driven applications that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable insights for clients.

You will build end-to-end pipelines, productionize models, and collaborate with product and research partners to bring advanced Earth intelligence capabilities to life.

The role requires advanced degrees or equivalent, strong Python and ML framework skills, and a passion for scalable, reliable systems.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in CS/ML/AI or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments.
• Experience designing end-to-end ML pipelines, including data processing, training automation, evaluation frameworks, and scalable inference.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying deep learning models in vision-language, multimodal, or LLMs; strong Python with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
• Experience deploying models into production with cloud infrastructure and containerized systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-driven applications that transform geospatial data into actionable insights.
• Build end-to-end AI/ML pipelines including data ingestion, preprocessing, training, evaluation, and production inference.
• Productionize reasoning models, multimodal AI systems, and integration of imagery with geospatial signals.
• Architect enterprise-grade training and experimentation frameworks with tracking and benchmarking.
• Collaborate with domain experts and engineers to translate Earth intelligence challenges into practical AI solutions.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

ML pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science / ML / AI or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

Vantor is seeking an experienced AI/ML engineer to design and deploy AI-driven applications that transform large-scale geospatial data into actionable insights for clients.

You will build end-to-end pipelines, productionize models, and collaborate with product and research partners to bring advanced Earth intelligence capabilities to life.

The role requires advanced degrees or equivalent, strong Python and ML framework skills, and a passion for scalable, reliable systems.