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BlackSky · 2 months ago

Staff Image Annotation/Quality Control Analyst

Herndon, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$110K/yr - $135K/yr

8+ years exp

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company that operates a sophisticated space-based intelligence platform. They are seeking a Staff Image Annotation/Quality Control Analyst to manage and enhance the data labeling process for their AI/ML models, ensuring the quality of data that trains these models and collaborating with various teams to meet product requirements.

Defense & Space

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Own and architect vision, strategy, and technical roadmap for BlackSky’s data labeling pipeline

Lead and manage external data labeling teams, providing oversight for labeling campaigns

Act as a key technical leader, partnering with stakeholders across the broader team (e.g., computer vision, mlops, platform) to meet customer-driven timelines and product requirements

Research for AI product development, identifying geographic areas where objects exist, developing object ontologies, building annotation instructions, and identifying imagery for annotation

Collaborate with machine learning and product teams to define metrics, assess, and report on the quality of machine learning models in development and production using statistical and quality assurance approaches

Create processes, tools, and scripts to manage and track data quality and labeling performance

Take part in the entire project lifecycle from requirements development to deployment

Mentor and guide other engineers on the team, leveraging your experience to teach others and foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation

Other job-related duties as assigned

Qualification

Data quality engineeringImage annotation platformsSatellite imagery analysisPythonQuality assurance practicesCollaborationAttention to detailTeam leadership

Required

Minimum of eight (8) years of hands-on experience as a data quality engineer, imagery analyst, GIS analyst, or quality assurance engineer in the space of satellites, computer vision, or machine learning

Bachelor's Degree or higher in one of the following fields: computer science, GIS, data science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another scientific field, or equivalent experience (four years)

Experience interpreting satellite imagery to identify objects, behaviors, or activities and working with GIS datasets

Hands on experience with annotation platforms such as LabelBox, SuperAnnotate, AWS Sagemaker, or CVAT and managing remote annotation workforces

Able to interdependently manage work projects defining, managing, and executing based on fixed objectives

Collaborates well with others and able to communicate ideas to those with other backgrounds

Experience with quality assurance practices, model testing & evaluation, and computing metrics & statistics from data

Attention to detail and ability to define, enforce, and follow rigorous process controls for managing data

Experience working with or managing Data Labeling teams such as CloudFactory, Hive, or iMerit

The program this role will support requires Us-born citizenship

Preferred

Over ten (10) years of relevant professional experience

Experience with AI advancements in image annotation such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), Embeddings, and other AI Assistance tools

Experience writing code and scripts, especially for processing large amounts of data

Proficiency with Python for automation and data manipulation tasks

Knowledge and experience working in an AWS Cloud environment

Demonstrated ability to lead and manage small teams

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

Company

BlackSky

BlackSky is a space-based intelligence company that delivers real-time imagery with global rapid revisit, analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events.

Founded in 2013

Herndon, Virginia, US

201-500 employees