Space Perception Engineer — EO/IR Tracking, Equity

trueanomalyinc; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 125,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class healthcare: company-paid

FTO and 25 days PTO plus holidays

401(k) retirement plan

Parental Leave

Equity participation

Dog Fridays

Job summary

True Anomaly seeks a perception engineer to architect and deploy image processing, tracking and discrimination pipelines for space-based missile defense. You will implement multi-band EO/IR processing in C++, derive features from physics, and ensure end-to-end validation from phenomenology to flight software.

The role emphasizes rigorous testing in software- and hardware-in-the-loop, collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, and contribution to mission-level security initiatives in a highly

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical or aerospace engineering, computer science, or a similar discipline.
• 2+ years of experience implementing image processing, detection and tracking algorithms.
• Working knowledge of radiometry and infrared phenomenology.
• U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.

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++: NUC, radiometric calibration and band registration.
• Develop physics-based features from first principles using thermal and optical signatures.
• Model phenomenology driving signatures including illumination, thermal response, viewing geometry and detector effects.
• Design robust tracking for many closely spaced objects.
• Perform statistical analysis to characterize algorithm performance including Monte Carlo campaigns and error budgets.
• Test and verify algorithms in software- and hardware-in-the-loop simulation with high-fidelity scenes; integrate into flight software.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Image processing

Tracking algorithms

Radiometry

IR phenomenology

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics, EE, aerospace, CS or similar

Master's or PhD preferred

Job description

True Anomaly seeks a perception engineer to architect and deploy image processing, tracking and discrimination pipelines for space-based missile defense. You will implement multi-band EO/IR processing in C++, derive features from physics, and ensure end-to-end validation from phenomenology to flight software.

The role emphasizes rigorous testing in software- and hardware-in-the-loop, collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, and contribution to mission-level security initiatives in a highly