Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collins Aerospace develops aerospace and aviation intelligence solutions, including digital services that support airlines, airports, and air traffic management. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer II will build and improve machine learning models for FlightAware Foresight products, using large-scale aviation data to improve operational efficiency and predictive aviation services.
Responsibilities
- As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Aviation Intelligence team, you will be building our next generation of Machine Learning models that will become new Foresight products, improving our existing models, and through this work, improving the operational efficiency of the world's largest airlines and airports
- Within Aviation Intelligence, FlightAware's Predict crew builds state-of-the-art machine learning systems that leverage years of historical data and hundreds of millions of examples in order to build models for computing runway landing times, gate arrival times, taxi durations, and more
- The results of these models power the FlightAware Foresight product suite, which streams live predictive aviation data to major customers in industry
Skills
- Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position
- Strong knowledge of Python
- Experience with deep learning frameworks: Tensorflow/Keras or PyTorch
- Experience with complex data types: time series, image, video, etc
- Ability to work within an agile development style
- Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and GPU acceleration
- Experience with graph neural networks
- Experience with weather, or other geospatial, datasets
- Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, etc.)
- Familiarity with Dagster, Airflow or other modern ETL orchestration tools
- Familiarity with Iceberg, Spark, Elasticsearch and other large-scale data processing systems
- Experience working in hybrid infrastructure environments (cloud + on-prem Kubernetes)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
- Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Student Loan Repayment Program
- Life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
- Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
- Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
- Adoption Assistance
- Autism Benefit
- Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
- Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
- Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
- Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
- Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
- Remote work primarily offsite from home
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
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