Apply on Employer Site

ARKA Group, LP · 2 months ago

Senior Computer Vision AI/ML Engineer (TS/SCI) {S}

King of Prussia, PA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

ARKA Group, LP is an advanced technologies company serving the U.S. military and intelligence community. The Senior Computer Vision AI/ML Engineer will apply cutting-edge AI/ML algorithms to remote sensing problems and lead a team in deploying these solutions in a cloud environment.

AerospaceCommunication HardwareHardwareInformation TechnologyManufacturingOptical CommunicationSoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Leading a small team consisting of developers and researchers to implement AI/ML algorithms to solve computer vision problems in remote sensing

Analyzing and pre-processing large remote sensing datasets

Researching supervised and unsupervised ATR solutions for remote sensing

Researching the performance benefits of multimodal data fusion for ATR, under diverse data collection scenarios

Training, optimizing, and deploying deep learning CV models that provide analysts with actionable insights

Reviewing relevant publications to understand cutting edge concepts, break down key ideas to government customers, and apply to defense and commercial applications

Writing technical documentation supporting code, program capabilities and user-guides

Qualification

AI/ML algorithmsComputer VisionPythonDeep LearningCloud ComputingTeam LeadershipTechnical DocumentationVersion ControlLinuxImage ProcessingEffective Communication

Required

BS in machine learning, computer science, computer vision, mathematics, or relevant fields

Experience leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers and software developers and working with a program manager to define project scope and schedule to ensure we meet project milestones as defined by our customers

Experience selecting a technical AI/ML approach and then iterating/pivoting as needed to enhance performance

Experience with Python and any of the following Python machine learning frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch Lightning, scikit-learn / scikit-image, and/or OpenCV

Experience training wither convolutional-based CV models (e.g. YOLOv3-11, YOLOX) or transformer-based CV models (Vision Transformer, Swin, etc.)

Effective communicator with the ability to write and present technical reports both internally to the engineering team and externally to customers

5+ years of experience, preferably in software development or as a data scientist with 3+ years of developing/training AI/ML models

Active TS/SCI U.S. Government Security Clearance

Preferred

MS or PhD in machine learning, computer science, computer vision, mathematics, or relevant fields

Experience with Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) and student-teacher approaches (e.g., DINO, knowledge distillation, BYOL)

Experience with applying AI/ML algorithms to Image Segmentation, Super Resolution, Image Denoising, Image Restoration, and Multi-INT Fusion

Experience with Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and applying them to CV-based problems

Experience working with image processing chains for any of the following domains: SAR, EO, and OPIR

Experience working with datasets of overhead imagery like xView, SpaceNet datasets, Functional Map of the World, xView3, MSTAR, HRSID, CAESAR, DOTA v1/v2, etc

Familiarity with using AWS cloud computing resources such as EC2, S3, Lambda, etc

Experience with version control processes and tools for code version control, data version control, and model version control

Experience with Linux

Experience with implementing tracking and fusion, and pattern-of-life algorithms

Experience in application deployment, virtualization, and containerization

Experience shaping and writing proposals

Active TS/SCI with a Counter Intelligence (CI) or recent Full-Scope Polygraph (FSP) U.S. Government Security Clearance