Applied AI/ML Engineer
Ursa Space Systems- Location
- Ithaca · United States
- Workplace
- Remote
- Employment
- Full Time
- Salary
- USD 185,000–199,000/yr
Posted 1mo ago
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Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain agentic AI systems
- Develop tool-use, orchestration, and context-management capabilities
- Conduct Verification and Validation (V&V) against AI/ML and LLM outputs
- Train, fine-tune, evaluate, and deploy computer vision models
- Adapt and fine-tune vision-language models (VLMs)
- Build evaluation and observability infrastructure
- Own projects end to end
- Integrate third-party and multi-source data sets
- Do ad-hoc analysis and answer time-sensitive questions
- Act as a technical resource for teammates
- Measure observed error against budget
- Perform adversarial and edge-case testing
- Calibrate confidence to ensure stated confidence matches correctness rates
- Ensure traceability and reproducibility of system outputs
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related STEM field
- 4–6 years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems
- Strong Python and production software engineering practices
- Experience training and deploying deep learning models for computer vision tasks
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications
- Experience evaluating ML systems with appropriate metrics
- Experience developing and deploying in AWS environments
- Strong communication skills
Preferred
- Prior experience with remote sensing data especially synthetic aperture radar (SAR), GIS, and/or spatial statistics
- Experience fine-tuning foundation models or VLMs
- Familiarity with agent orchestration frameworks and protocols
- Geospatial Python stack: GDAL, rasterio, geopandas, xarray
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases and vector stores
- Experience leading projects on complex, cross-discipline teams
- Familiarity with Confluence, Jira, and Miro
- Regression and drift detection
Skills
- Python
- Git
- Docker
- CI/CD
- PyTorch
- AWS
- GDAL
- rasterio
- geopandas
- xarray
- SQL
- NoSQL
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