Principal SW Engineer, Machine Learning Operations

BlackSky is looking for a talented and creative Principal Software Engineer to support the development, operation, and capability evolution of Spectra AI, BlackSky’s cutting-edge AI/ML Platform. The ideal candidate has geospatial software engineering, computer vision model deployment, operations, and testing experience; familiarity with satellite imagery or similar datasets; and success working in an agile development environment.

Requirements

• Minimum of ten years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least four years focused on geospatial imagery.
• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another computational field.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building scalable production software solutions and architectures, especially for machine learning or image processing.
• Strong Python or Golang proficiency and experience writing production software for data ETL, micro-services, geospatial, or data analytics, and cloud deployment.
• Experience with distributed compute environments such as Kubernetes and Dask.
• Hands on experience working with large imagery datasets including image normalization, image augmentation, raster/vector visualization, etc.
• Strong ability to communicate concepts and software system results with customers, management, and the technical team, highlighting actionable insights.
• Hands on experience with cloud services such as AWS EKS, S3, EC2, Aurora / RDS, SQS, SNS, Batch, etc.
• You may have some exposure to machine learning. While not a requirement, it would be helpful if you have studied or have worked with machine learning, statistics, computer vision and would enjoy working with Computer Vision subject matter experts.
• The program this role will support requires Us-born citizenship.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life and AD&D, voluntary life and AD&D insurance
• BlackSky pays 100% of employee-only premiums for medical, dental and vision and contributes $100/month for out-of-pocket expenses!
• 15 days of PTO, 11 Company holidays, four Floating Holidays (pro-rated based on hire date), one day of paid volunteerism leave per year, parental leave and more
• 401(k) pre-tax and Roth deferral options with employer match
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Employee Assistance and Travel Assistance Programs
• Employer matching donations
• Professional development
• Mac or PC? Your choice!
• Awesome swag