Head of Space AI
Core
Building onboard intelligence for autonomous spacecraft, enabling systems to sense, reason, and act without human uplink to overcome ground control bottlenecks.
Role type
Head of AI (Technical Leadership & Hands-on IC)
Builds
Full perception-to-action autonomy stack for spacecraft, including edge AI, MLOps infrastructure, and production-ready onboard software.
Domain
Aerospace / Space Systems / Computer Vision / Robotics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Computer vision (object detection, segmentation, tracking, visual odometry), Deep learning, Edge AI and model compression, MLOps and CI/CD for AI, Embedded systems and hardware integration, Python, C/C++, Linux, System architecture and trade-offs, Technical leadership and mentoring
Preferred skills
Reinforcement learning and learning-based control, Robotics middleware and planning/control, SLAM and state estimation, Real-time flight software, Satellite or spacecraft systems knowledge, Cloud platforms for ground-side pipelines
Technologies
ONNX, TensorRT, GPU computing, AWS/GCP, Linux, Python, C/C++
