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Provides deep subject-matter expertise, strategic guidance, technical advice, data analysis, research, and actionable insights. The SME collaborates cross-functionally with teams and stakeholders, supports training and documentation, and contributes to quality assurance in a high-tech geospatial AI environment.

Own the end-to-end electrical architecture for advanced sensing payloads and airborne and spaceborne systems. Define interfaces, power, signal integrity, data paths, grounding, reliability, requirements, budgets, and verification approaches. Lead trade studies and technical reviews while guiding schematic design, board development, bring-up, integration, testing, risk resolution, and flight-readiness evidence. The role requires onsite work in El Segundo, California and compliance with applicable ITAR eligibility requirements.

Build production AI and agentic workflows combining physics-informed models, LLMs, VLMs, scientific data, retrieval, memory, tools, and deterministic rules. Develop secure, durable systems with permissions, auditability, human approval, evidence lineage, and recovery capabilities. Evaluate system performance for task success, groundedness, safety, latency, cost, and scientific validity. Partner with product and design teams to deliver customer-facing intelligence products supporting operational decisions.

Build versioned datasets, benchmark suites, simulation environments, and evaluation infrastructure for AI models and agents. Develop reproducible testing across accuracy, robustness, safety, calibration, latency, cost, and operational outcomes. Convert field and customer failures into durable test cases, adversarial evaluations, and environment scenarios. Establish release gates and communicate evidence, uncertainty, capability, and residual risk. The role requires strong statistical and experimental foundations, Python and machine-learning framework fluency, and software engineering discipline.

Leads product strategy, roadmap development, customer requirements, deployment planning, and cross-functional delivery for technically complex sensing and intelligence products. Establishes readiness criteria, operating handoffs, performance feedback loops, and prioritization processes to move customer pilots into repeatable deployments. Requires strong product leadership in complex hardware, data, analytics, or software environments, with onsite work in San Francisco.

Designs and maintains detailed mechanical assemblies, drawings, and bills of material for airborne payload hardware. Translates optical, electrical, thermal, and structural constraints into manufacturable packaging solutions. Supports prototyping, fabrication, assembly, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and flight operations while maintaining configuration control and incorporating build and test feedback.

Develop and validate control algorithms, models, architectures, and verification plans for advanced sensing systems. Evaluate stability and performance through simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-level testing. Collaborate with software, firmware, electronics, mechanical, and systems teams during integration and troubleshooting. Support the transition of algorithms from simulation to hardware while diagnosing performance limits and guiding design tradeoffs.

Lead Matter Intelligence’s government and strategic business development across Indo-Pacific markets, initially Japan and South Korea. Build country strategies, government and industry relationships, partner ecosystems, qualified pipelines, capture plans, proposals, negotiations, and contract conversions. Translate sensing and intelligence technologies into mission-specific opportunities, coordinate technical and commercial teams, navigate procurement and compliance requirements, and develop sovereign or locally integrated solutions. Extensive regional travel and engagement with defense, intelligence, aerospace, space, and civil-government stakeholders are required.

Design, integrate, align, calibrate, and operate optical systems for airborne sensing payloads. Conduct optical trade studies, define interfaces and tolerances, execute laboratory and field testing, analyze flight-test results, troubleshoot performance gaps, and document requirements, test methods, calibration outcomes, and configuration changes.

Lead recruiting strategy and execution across technical, operational, and leadership roles. Partner with executives and hiring managers on role definition, interview design, evaluation, and hiring decisions. Build scalable recruiting operations, sourcing pipelines, candidate communications, hiring metrics, employer branding, offer processes, onboarding handoffs, and people processes for an early-stage technical company.