Software Engineering Director, Infrared Data Products

You will manage an organization of managers, data scientists, and software engineers, leading them in delivering an ultra-low latency, high-reliability, massive volume data processing pipeline for data from the FireSat constellation, enabling timely updates to customers around the world. You will identify and drive improvement of the metrics needed to deliver the performance customers need from image processing pipelines, and create long-term technical strategy and roadmaps to drive new capabilities and products from infrared and visual imagery. You will train, teach, and model best practices in software engineering and data science, and communicate clearly with customers, partner teams, and the company to drive clarity on the team's capabilities. You will drive the vision and mission of the team in harmony with the broader company mission, establish operational objectives, policies, procedures, and work plans, and be accountable for the team's successful and predictable delivery against goals and objectives.

Responsibilities

• Manage an organization of managers, data scientists, and software engineers
• Lead the team in delivering an ultra-low latency, high-reliability, massive volume data processing pipeline for FireSat constellation data
• Identify, ensure measurement of, and drive improvement of key performance metrics for image processing pipelines
• Create long-term technical strategy and roadmaps for new capabilities and products from infrared and visual imagery
• Train, teach and model best principles of software engineering and data science
• Communicate clearly and effectively to customers, partner teams and the company as a whole
• Drive the vision and mission of the team in harmony with the company's broader mission and values
• Establish operational objectives, policies, procedures and work plans and delegate assignments
• Be accountable for the team's successful and predictable delivery against goals and objectives

Requirements

• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Data Science or a related area
• 5 years of prior software management experience
• Experience building and deploying high volume, ultra-low latency data processing pipelines, ideally with computer vision algorithms
• Experience with geospatial data engineering principles and tooling
• Expert understanding of software engineering processes such as software estimation, DevOps, testing, etc.
• Excitement about working in a fast-paced, innovation-focused startup environment
• Expertise in negotiation and managing technical decision-making
• Experience writing high-performance data processing in C++ or Python
• Expertise with both classical and modern neural-network-based computer vision techniques
• Experience delivering imagery products to government organizations
• Experience with image processing pipelines from remotely sensed data

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k retirement plan
• Short & long term disability and life insurance
• Three weeks paid vacation for new employees
• 12 paid holidays
• Unlimited sick time
• Paid parental leave