AI and Computer Vision Engineer

Here at The Exploration Company, we are building innovative aerospace technologies that advance the future of space transportation.

We want you as a hands-on AI and Computer Vision Engineer to build the perception capability behind autonomous close-proximity operations: models that estimate the relative position and orientation of non-cooperative spacecraft from camera images, trained largely on synthetic and lab data, and optimized to run on the compute we can actually fly.

This is a builder role. You write the training code, run the experiments, take the models onto embedded and neuromorphic hardware, and own the results.

Key Responsibilities

In your capacity as AI and Computer Vision Engineer, your role will be continuously evolving, but day to day your duties will include:

• Designing, training and evaluating deep-learning models for 6-DoF pose estimation of non-cooperative spacecraft

• Owning the full training pipeline: dataset generation and management, augmentation, domain adaptation between synthetic, laboratory and orbital imagery, experiment tracking and reproducibility.

• Optimizing models for flight-representative compute (knowledge distillation, pruning, quantization an