# Software Engineer: Perception (II,III)

About Lodestar Lodestar's mission is to develop the first "Protect and Defend" capability for high-value space assets in orbit. Our flagship product MITHRIL is the critical hardware & software necessary to augment any off-the-shelf spacecraft with the ability to autonomously detect, characterise, and reversibly neutralise orbital threats. By building on the proven space heritage of our best-in-class satellite-bus partners and fully integrating MITHRIL as a single platform, we deliver a fully autonomous end-to-end protection spacecraft service. About the Job As aSoftware Engineer II/III - Perception at Lodestar, you’ll be joining the perception and machine vision teams to rapidly grow our vision and perception models at MITHRIL’s center. You'll help build and refine algorithms that detect, classify and understand unknown space targets in real time. Working alongside senior perception engineers, you'll combine computer vision, image processing and machine learning to develop the custom models that underpin autonomous decision-making in complex and uncertain space environments. This is an mid-career role. We're looking for strong fundamentals and fast learning, and you'll be given re

- **Id**: 3541496
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/lodestar-software-engineer-perception-iiiii>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Los Angeles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-08-25T15:29:44Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T03:03:55Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 439
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5511
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Retirement plans, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Space Services, Defense AI

## Company

- **Id**: 716996
- **Name**: Lodestar
- **Domain**: lodestar.space
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/lodestar-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

## Salary

- **Min**: 115000
- **Max**: 174000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 174000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Digital Twin** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **OpenCV** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **CUDA** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Git** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 438

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T19:24:38Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 5
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.18
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 439
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 174000
- **Is top pay**: no

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