Senior ML Engineer II — Space Systems | Equity Eligible

Rocket Lab Corporation; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 229,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Lab Optical Systems seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II to advance deep learning for EO/IR image processing in support of DoD/IC customers. You’ll build CNNs for space-domain sensing and collaborate across AI/vision teams to scale data and improve performance.

The role is in Long Beach, CA with a path to impact SDA programs and protracted missions, combining research with production-ready deployments. Eligibility for U.S. citizenship and security clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years in CS/EE/ME/Physics or related field.
• Strong fundamentals in machine learning, model selection, training, validation, deployment.
• Experience building CNNs for vision, object detection or tracking.

Responsibilities

• Develop computer vision algorithms and deep neural networks for image/video processing.
• Collaborate with researchers/engineers on AI, ML, and CV
• Design, train, and deploy ML models for Optical Systems.

Skills

Python

Deep learning

Math & optimization

CI/CD & versioning

US citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8+ years experience

Master/PhD in CS/EE/ME/Physics

Tools

Keras

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Rocket Lab Optical Systems seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer II to advance deep learning for EO/IR image processing in support of DoD/IC customers. You’ll build CNNs for space-domain sensing and collaborate across AI/vision teams to scale data and improve performance.

The role is in Long Beach, CA with a path to impact SDA programs and protracted missions, combining research with production-ready deployments. Eligibility for U.S. citizenship and security clearance is required.