Founding Computer Vision and ML Engineer​/Tech Lead

About Satlantis:

Satlantis builds high-performance satellite systems and the data-processing pipelines that turn what they see into decisions. Our Earth-observation payloads and analytics support customers working on environmental and infrastructure monitoring, maritime awareness, and defense. These are problems where image quality and model accuracy have direct real-world consequences.

Our Gainesville, Florida team owns high-performance data processing, deployed analytics, and intelligence products, together with the tooling that keeps throughput high. Learn more at

The Opportunity:

Satlantis US is building its core computer vision and machine learning function from the ground up, and we are looking for our Founding Computer Vision & ML Engineer / Tech Lead.

In this role, you will own the technical direction for imagery understanding and applied machine learning across our cutting-edge Earth-observation products—and you will build and lead the team that delivers them.

You will report directly to a CTO with deep machine learning expertise, giving you a genuine technical sparring partner rather than a corporate management layer. This is a true 50/50 hands-on leadership role: you will spend half your time prototyping complex vision problems, reviewing architectures, and writing code, and the other half setting the roadmap, scaling your team, and collaborating with our mission teams and international engineering counterparts in Spain.

If you want your judgment about vision systems to fundamentally shape a company’s product line rather than just a single workstream, this is your platform.

• The CV/ML
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Define our 12–18 month strategy for Earth-observation imagery understanding (segmentation, detection, change detection, semantic retrieval, and anomaly detection).
• Team Building & Culture: Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team, establishing rigorous standards for evaluation, reproducibility, and peer review.
• Production & Scale: Partner with software and platform engineering to ship models into production, maximizing resources like the University of Florida’s Hi Per Gator  AI supercomputer.
• Global
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Partner seamlessly with image processing and mission peers at our headquarters in Spain to align on shared standards, tooling, and datasets.

• Experience: 5+ years in computer vision, machine learning, or applied AI, with a proven track record of delivering vision models into operational use or production.
• Leadership: 2+ years leading engineers as a manager or technical lead (including hiring, mentorship, and team accountability).
• Technical Depth: Deep command of computer vision fundamentals (image representations, geometric reasoning, dense prediction, detection, segmentation).
• Stack Fluency: Strong Python skills with hands-on depth in PyTorch and practical fluency in training/inference optimization.
• Mindset: A builder who loves writing clean, maintainable code just as much as setting architectural vision.

This is a full-time, on-site role in Gainesville, Florida. Leading this team means being in the room with the engineers and product colleagues you work alongside; we are not able to offer a remote arrangement for this position.

MUST BE A U.S. CITIZEN – The selected candidate must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance. This position does not provide employment visa sponsorship; candidates must possess permanent, unrestricted legal authorization to work in the U.S.

Compensation and Benefits:

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience, supplemented by a performance-based bonus. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision…