AI/ML Scientist, Planetary Science

📋 Description

• Develop and deploy ML systems for the 2028 Mars orbital mission
• Build AI models to run on spacecraft in Mars orbit
• Advance frontier AI methods for diverse, sparse planetary data
• Implement multimodal data fusion across 2D images, 3D models, and radar
• Create autonomous in situ science: real-time analysis and re-tasking
• Own problems end-to-end from data to flight hardware deployment (travel <10%)

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in machine learning, computer science, physics, or related field
• Experience with transfer learning, domain adaptation, or fine-tuning in low-data settings
• Experience applying ML to physical datasets
• Working knowledge of multi-modal data fusion
• Ability to own problems end-to-end: data, models, evaluation, deployment
• Excited to collaborate with diverse scientists and engineers to advance planetary science

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend
• Collaborative, interdisciplinary team
• Occasional travel to partner sites (<10%)