Astrophysics Inc. is a leading global designer and manufacturer of X-Ray security inspection systems. Since 2002, we have dedicated ourselves to ensuring a safer world through advanced X-Ray screening and imaging technology. Our systems are deployed in critical infrastructure, aviation, and ports and borders sites in more than 150 countries. Hotels, prisons, courthouses, embassies, airports, military bases, and government buildings around the world depend on us for their safety and security. Astrophysics is an expanding, dynamic and fast-paced company looking for individuals who want to grow with us and be a part of a meaningful security mission. We currently have an immediate opening for a Software Engineer located at our headquarters in City of Industry, CA, and our R&D facility in Ontario, CA.
Job Summary:
The Software Engineer will design, develop, and maintain software modules, and contribute to AI and machine learning projects for Astrophysics’ x-ray systems. ; The engineer will work on a variety of tasks including generating data sets, data processing, ML pipeline development, and deployment.
Essential Functions:
- Design and develop assigned software modules.
- Test and troubleshoot for operation of the module.
- Automate methods to handle data preprocessing of structured and unstructured data, as well as feature extraction and data transformation.
- Work with libraries and frameworks such as PyTorch, or other deep learning tools to design, develop, and maintain machine learning pipelines and automate model training, validation and testing.
- Generate reports on algorithm performance and metrics.
- Continuously monitor performance, evaluate, and retrain AI models.
- Write clean, efficient, and scalable RESTful APIs to serve the AI models.
- Test, secure, and integrate RESTful APIs with other components within the machine’s ecosystem.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Master’s degree or minimum 1-2 years of proven experience in a software engineering related field.
- Experience in Python, with an understanding of NumPy and matplotlib.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks, such as PyTorch, or similar.
- Familiarity with FastAPI or other RESTful API frameworks.
- Experience with SQL RDBMS and queries, such as MySQL, or similar.
- Takes initiative and works well independently as well as collaboratively with a team.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and willing to take on new challenges as technology evolves.
- Knowledge of Docker and containerization concepts is a plus.
- Familiarity with Convolutional Neural Networks concepts is a plus.
- Experience in C# programming is a plus.
- Ability to obtain a government security clearance.
- Ability to travel, domestically and internationally, as required.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
- 8:00am to 5:00pm
- (Hours subject to change based on the needs of the business.)
- This position is based at our headquarters in City of Industry, CA, and our R&D facility in Ontario, CA.
Benefits & Perks:
- Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401K plan with 4% employer match
- 11 paid holidays, 10 PTO days
- Free donuts on Fridays, company luncheons and year end party!
;Be part of a meaningful security mission with opportunities for personal and professional growth and development. Join our Astrophysics family today!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Astrophysics Inc. provides equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals. Employment decisions at Astrophysics Inc. are based on merit, qualifications and abilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. If you need assistance or an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 1(909) 598-5488 and ask for Human Resources. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
