Staff AI/ML Scientist — RL & Vision for Space Systems

The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Paid time off

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible spending accounts

Relocation assistance

Education assistance

Professional growth

Job summary

The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA is seeking a Data Scientist specializing in Data Science/Big Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence to develop and advance AI/ML capabilities for mission-critical programs.

You will design and implement algorithms, build training and inference pipelines, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to transition capabilities to customers including USSF, NRO, and IRAD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related STEM majors.
• 3+ years of AI/ML, data science and related work.
• Proven AI/ML statistical analysis, data science, and modeling.
• Programming in Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow.
• Knowledge of Reinforcement Learning concepts and algorithms.
• Willing to travel ~10% for customer meetings and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate advanced AI/ML algorithms.
• Design and implement reinforcement learning solutions for decision making, autonomy, planning, optimization and control.
• Apply deep learning, computer vision, foundation models, generative AI, and multimodal learning to mission-relevant problems.
• Develop data processing, model training, inference and evaluation pipelines.
• Design experiments to evaluate performance, robustness, generalization, and failure modes of AI/ML systems.

Skills

Teamwork

Analytical skills

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Python

ML frameworks

Reinforcement Learning

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related STEM

Tools

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, CA is seeking a Data Scientist specializing in Data Science/Big Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence to develop and advance AI/ML capabilities for mission-critical programs.

You will design and implement algorithms, build training and inference pipelines, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to transition capabilities to customers including USSF, NRO, and IRAD.