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As a Software Engineer I - Perception at Lodestar, you’ll be joining the perception and machine vision teams to rapidly grow our vision and perception models at MITHRIL’s center.
You'll help build and refine algorithms that detect, classify and understand unknown space targets in real time.
Working alongside senior perception engineers, you'll combine computer vision, image processing and machine learning to develop the custom models that underpin autonomous decision-making in complex and uncertain space environments.
This is an early-career role.
We're looking for strong fundamentals and fast learning rather than a long track record, and you'll be given real ownership early with the support to grow into it.
We proudly have an "extreme ownership" oriented engineering culture.
Lodestar's mission is to develop the first "Protect and Defend" capability for high-value space assets in orbit. Our flagship product MITHRIL is the critical hardware & software necessary to augment any off-the-shelf spacecraft with the ability to autonomously detect, characterise, and reversibly neutralise orbital threats. By building on the proven space heritage of our best-in-class satellite-bus partners and fully integrating MITHRIL as a single platform, we deliver a fully autonomous end-to-end protection spacecraft service.
As a Software Engineer I - Perception at Lodestar, you’ll be joining the perception and machine vision teams to rapidly grow our vision and perception models at MITHRIL’s center.
You'll help build and refine algorithms that detect, classify and understand unknown space targets in real time. Working alongside senior perception engineers, you'll combine computer vision, image processing and machine learning to develop the custom models that underpin autonomous decision-making in complex and uncertain space environments.
This is an early-career role. We're looking for strong fundamentals and fast learning rather than a long track record, and you'll be given real ownership early with the support to grow into it.
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Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles, USA
London, GBR
London, GBR
We proudly have an "extreme ownership" oriented engineering culture.
Contribute to the perception system at the core of Lodestar's autonomy software suite
Work through the full lifecycle of perception algorithms alongside senior engineers including literature review, training, evaluation, optimisation and deployment
Build on and optimise our existing models for edge computing, and develop new components with guidance from the perception leads
Help develop and test our methods for predicting the relative pose of dynamic space targets in harsh and unpredictable visual environments
Integrate perception models into mission simulation environments and real-time autonomy pipelines
Contribute to the design of realistic sensor models and digital twins to improve perception fidelity in mission scenarios
Maintain and extend our perception tooling, model training infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks
Collaborate across the autonomy, estimation, and mission software teams to support perception fidelity, performance, and scalability
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options , and access to medical, vision and dental coverage , as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan .
Lodestar is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Lodestar is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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USD 99000-174000 yearly / year
Full-time
Entry · 0+ years experience
Onsite
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