Senior Algorithm Engineer II (EO/IR Image Analysis)
Rocket Lab · Tucson, AZ
About this role
**ABOUT ROCKET LAB** Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, and expanding humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. **SPACE SYSTEMS** Rocket Lab’s Space Systems division builds complete spacecraft and precision payloads—from components to subsystems that thrive in space, including solar panels, flight software, star trackers, optical systems, separation systems, and radios. The Space Systems division has enabled more than 1,700 missions across interplanetary exploration, in-space manufacturing, and national security and defense initiatives. We’ve built spacecraft, payloads, and components for missions to the Moon and Mars with partners including NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the U.S. Space Force. --- **SENIOR ALGORITHM ENGINEER II — (EO/IR IMAGE ANALYSIS)** Rocket Lab Optical Systems solves mission-critical space domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance challenges for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. Our vision is to revolutionize the space-based payload market with innovative and novel designs for space, terrestrial, and airborne environments. As a **Senior Algorithm Engineer II** for Rocket Lab Optical Systems in **Long Beach, CA**, you will develop, validate, and deploy advanced algorithms for advanced EO/IR space payloads, with an emphasis on **image processing, object detection, and tracking**. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in machine learning, optical design, and space vehicle modeling and simulation, and support design and prototype processing claims for next-generation space payloads. **WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO** - Develop, optimize, and validate complex EO/IR image-processing chains and support deployment into real-time implementations on space-based sensor payloads. - Apply your understanding of the physics of optical sensors and image formation to develop and optimize modeling and simulation frameworks for simulating mission imagery. - Use simulation frameworks to synthesize mission imagery to support machine learning training and image algorithm validation. - Use classical and modern (deep learning) approaches to detect and track low-SNR objects within EO/IR imagery for mission-critical applications. - Work with software and firmware teams to transition complex image-processing algorithms into high-performance, real-time implementations.
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