Senior Data Scientist IV, AI & Autonomy for Space Ops

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 228,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena seeks a Data Scientist IV to advance autonomous systems for spacecraft, science data analysis, and mission operations automation. You will apply AI techniques to develop planning and scheduling solutions for complex missions.

The role emphasizes collaboration across interdisciplinary teams, with opportunities to work on missions like ECOSTRESS and NISAR, and requires a TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline with a minimum of 9 years of related work experience.
• Master’s degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 7 years of related work experience.
• PhD in similar disciplines with a minimum of 5 years of related work experience.
• Broad knowledge in software development, artificial intelligence, operations research, resource allocation mechanisms.
• Background knowledge in Artificial Intelligence and/or Operations research techniques as evidenced by software artifacts.

Responsibilities

• Develop planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and execution algorithms for autonomous systems that interpret complex state, resource, constraint, and event data to take actions to achieve mission goals.
• Develop and use search-based, constraint-based, satisfaction and optimization systems to solve large scale planning and resource allocation problems.
• Develop software to represent and reason about complex geometric and operations constraints relevant to observation planning.
• Support broader team efforts in this automation and resource allocation areas.

Skills

Software development

Artificial intelligence

Operations research

Resource allocation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in related discipline

PhD in related disciplines

Tools

Rust

C++

C

Python

Java

Job description

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena seeks a Data Scientist IV to advance autonomous systems for spacecraft, science data analysis, and mission operations automation. You will apply AI techniques to develop planning and scheduling solutions for complex missions.

The role emphasizes collaboration across interdisciplinary teams, with opportunities to work on missions like ECOSTRESS and NISAR, and requires a TS/SCI clearance.