Sr. Computer Vision Scientist

Our mission at Orbital Insight is to use geospatial data to understand what is happening on and to the Earth. A major part of that vision is using computer vision to look at petabytes of satellite and drone imagery -- indeed one of the founding insights of the company was that the availability of imagery is rapidly outstripping the number of humans available to look at it. Hidden within that imagery at scale are the answers to myriad questions ranging from development rates in countries around the world, to agricultural productivity, to deployments of ground and air military assets, to mass migration and immigration, to climate change, to the state of economic cycles in countries around the world. We are leading the charge to use AI and Data Science at scale to make sense of this data and inform decision makers around the world.

In order to answer these questions we must break new ground in Computer Vision: leveraging existing open source libraries and moving beyond the state of the art in object detection and semantic segmentation -- understanding what is possible in the unique domain of Computer Vision for satellite and drone imagery. Using convolutional neural networks, we have counted over 3 billion cars across global roads and parking lots, analyzing commercial patterns as well as city growth and development. We have recently expanded our capabilities to include detecting trucks, identifying hundreds of classes of airplanes, different types of armoured vehicles, and changes in land use. Other projects include site monitoring near facilities or bases, tracking rates of deforestation, measuring poverty levels around the globe, monitoring construction rates of new roads and buildings, and ground-breaking work in areas such as using simulated imagery to augment human-labeled training imagery of rare or important objects and land types. This is still just the beginning of our mission to understand the Earth.

This position will be based in our Palo Alto, CA office. Currently, Orbital Insight is fully remote (working from home) until at least the end of the year, due to COVID. Occasional travel may be required (only applicable post COVID).

Orbital Insight is a fast growing provider of geospatial data and geo­-analytic services to commercial, nonprofit and public sector clients across the globe. Leveraging advancements in computer vision and cloud computing, Orbital Insight is turning millions of images into a big picture understanding of the world that is quantitatively grounded in observation, creating unprecedented transparency, and empowering global decision makers with new sources of objective, quantified socio­-economic insights.

We are backed by marquee investors such as Google Ventures, Sequoia Capital, In­-Q­- Tel and Bloomberg Beta, Orbital Insight is rapidly expanding its commercial and public sector capabilities. Come join us if you are unafraid to try new approaches and relentlessly seek to push the state of the art, taking projects all the way from prototype to production-ready.

At Orbital Insight, we believe that a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our planet is the way to achieve our mission: to understand what is happening on and to the Earth.  Orbital Insight is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. We do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes and will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Orbital Insight.