Principal Algorithm Engineer (EO/IR Image Analysis) is open at Rocket Lab in Tucson, AZ. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $235K. Posted on Sep 16, 2026, and still on Rocket Lab’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
to support Tranche 3 of the U.S. Space Development Agency's (SDA) Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA) and beyond by building deep learning neural networks for advanced Electro-Optical (EO/IR) image processing. WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO Develop computer vision algorithms and deep neural networks for image and video processing chains. Collaborate with other researchers/engineers on artificial intelligence…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Rocket Lab’s careers page.
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