Senior AI/ML Scientist, Planetary Science

Demonstrated experience with transfer learning, domain adaptation or model fine-tuning, particularly in low-data or out-of-distribution settings

Experience with applying machine learning in physical datasets

Excited to collaborate with a diverse group of scientists and engineers, and further planetary science

Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit

$154,000

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$211,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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We are seeking an AI/ML Scientist to develop and deploy machine learning systems that unlock new science from our 2028 Mars orbital mission.

This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of frontier AI methods and planetary science - building new approaches for a data environment with disparate datasets and often sparse observations, heterogeneous instrument modalities, and a dynamic planetary system we are only beginning to understand.

You will be building AI models to run on the spacecraft in Mars orbit.

This position is jointly advised by Relativity's Interplanetary Sciences Program and Polymathic AI, a research collaboration initiative pioneering foundation models for scientific data across physical disciplines.

One topic is enhancing Mars atmospheric modeling and doing weather forecasting.

You will develop and apply Machine Learning techniques to combine Earth-derived atmospheric datasets and known Martian atmospheric physics to create a weather forecasting model to be run on the spacecraft at Mars with real-time collected data as the input.

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and what’s beyond our planet with its launch vehicle, the Terran R. Its

Interplanetary Sciences Program was established to expand access to scientific exploration across our Solar System, with the mission to push the boundaries of how planetary science is done, and make planetary research faster, more affordable, and more capable than ever before. We are rethinking how science missions are designed, built, and operated, and how the collected data is analyzed and used. We are transforming space science from an occasional event into a continuous process of discovery that accelerates knowledge, broadens participation, and inspires the next generation of explorers.