BlackSky is hiring a
Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join BlackSky, a real-time intelligence company, as a Staff Software Engineer to support the development, operation, and capability evolution of Spectra AI, BlackSky's cutting-edge AI/ML Platform. As part of the machine learning team, you will help ensure that Spectra AI produces consistent, reliable, and relevant analytics to BlackSky’s growing user base.

Requirements

• Minimum of eight years of hands-on experience as a software engineer with at least three 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 Python3 proficiency or GO 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
• Must be a US Citizen

Responsibilities

• Design and implement image processing pipelines and software services to assist researchers developing computer vision solutions for next-generation satellite imagery analytics
• Ensure high-quality and production-ready Python and GO code
• Take part in the entire project lifecycle from requirements development to deployment
• Serve as a lead on MLOps software development projects, data ETL projects, and software feature development
• Collaborate with management and technical team on technical roadmap and implementation strategy
• Other job-related duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Over ten years of hands-on experience as a software engineer
• Knowledge and experience with MLOps and DataOps as a practice
• Experience with databases and data model design especially SQL such as Postgres / PostGIS and ElasticSearch
• Experience working with geospatial and image software stacks (GDAL, Rasterio, GeoPandas, Shapely, Xarray, Zarr, etc.)
• Experience with remote sensing datasets and image preprocessing and manipulation methods for sensors such as Sentinel, LandSat, BlackSky, Airbus, Planet, or WorldView

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