Senior EO/IR Image Processing Engineer II

Rocketlab; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 195,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Employee stock purchase program

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) plan with company match

Job summary

Rocket Lab is seeking a Senior Algorithm Engineer II in Long Beach, CA, to develop and optimize EO/IR image-processing algorithms for space payloads. You will work with ML techniques, simulations, and cross-disciplinary teams to deliver robust, real-time solutions.

The role requires advanced degrees and US citizenship with ability to obtain a security clearance. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in physics, optical sciences, computer science, mathematics, or engineering with 8+ years for BS, 5+ for MS, 2+ for PhD in image processing/EO/IR systems.
• Strong experience designing, implementing, testing, and optimizing EO/IR image processing algorithms.
• Proficiency in Python; experience with C/C++ is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop, optimize, and validate EO/IR image-processing chains for real-time deployment on space payloads.
• Build modeling/simulation frameworks to generate mission imagery for ML training and validation.
• Apply deep learning approaches to detect and track low-SNR objects in EO/IR data.
• Collaborate with software/firmware teams to deploy algorithms into high-performance implementations.
• Analyze large EO/IR datasets and present results to stakeholders.

Skills

EO/IR image processing

Python programming

Machine learning

Communication

Team leadership

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical field

Master's degree

PhD in a related field

Tools

C/C++

Modeling & Simulation

Vision libraries

Job description

Rocket Lab is seeking a Senior Algorithm Engineer II in Long Beach, CA, to develop and optimize EO/IR image-processing algorithms for space payloads. You will work with ML techniques, simulations, and cross-disciplinary teams to deliver robust, real-time solutions.

The role requires advanced degrees and US citizenship with ability to obtain a security clearance. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits are provided.