Space Perception Engineer — Missile Defense & Tracking

True Anomaly, Inc.; Denver, Long Beach (CO, CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Best-in-class healthcare

Flexible Time Off (FTO)

Daily catered lunch & snacks

401(k) retirement plan

Equity participation

Job summary

True Anomaly, Inc. is seeking a perception engineer to architect and deploy perception systems that enable space-based missile defense.

You will turn multi-band infrared and visible imagery into physical understanding of objects, designing tracking filters to handle closely spaced targets in challenging environments. You will own the perception stack end-to-end, from phenomenology and algorithm design through software- and hardware-in-the-loop validation, to flight software that runs on

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer science, or a similar discipline.
• 2+ years of experience implementing image processing, detection and tracking algorithms in real-world systems.
• Working knowledge of radiometry and infrared phenomenology.
• U.S. Citizen and eligible for DoD Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multidisciplinary team and solve complex problems with first principles approaches.
• Passion for spaceflight and advancing capabilities related to missile defense and space security.

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++: non-uniformity correction, radiometric calibration, band registration, frame stacking, adaptive detection and PSF photometry
• Develop physics-based features from first principles, from the thermal and optical signatures of each object
• Model the phenomenology that drives the signatures: solar and Earth illumination, thermal response through sunlight and eclipse, viewing geometry, glints, and optics and detector effects
• Design robust tracking for many closely spaced objects
• Perform statistical analysis to characterize and verify algorithm performance, including Monte Carlo campaigns and error budgets
• Test and verify your algorithms in software- and hardware-in-the-loop simulation with high-fidelity scene generation
• Work with the software team to integrate your algorithms into flight software

Skills

C/C++

Python

Image processing

Object tracking

Radiometry/IR phenomenology

Team collaboration

Space domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in physics, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, computer science, or a similar discipline

Job description

True Anomaly, Inc. is seeking a perception engineer to architect and deploy perception systems that enable space-based missile defense.

You will turn multi-band infrared and visible imagery into physical understanding of objects, designing tracking filters to handle closely spaced targets in challenging environments. You will own the perception stack end-to-end, from phenomenology and algorithm design through software- and hardware-in-the-loop validation, to flight software that runs on