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Trillium Technologies Inc (Trillium USA)
Trillium Technologies USA has applied systems thinking and AI to planetary defense, space situational awareness, exploration medicine, lunar operations, obesity, violent extremism, water management, energy security and efficiency and disaster response.

Trillium USA Office: 8668 John Hickman Pkwy, STE 301 Frisco, TX 75034

To get involved in our activities in USA please reach out to Anne Spalding at anne@trillium.tech.


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About Trillium USA

Trillium Technologies Inc. is a research and development company with a focus on the application of artificial intelligence to systems problems for planetary stewardship, space exploration and human health.

Trillium is an impact-led social enterprise with a dedicated team of project leads, ML and data engineers and designers, who develop technology platforms that tackle grand challenges. Trillium builds on the insight experience of its broad academic research community of 500+ data scientists and space scientists.

The US entity Trillium Technologies Inc was incorporated in Summer 2019 to directly service US Federal projects.

Prior to incorporation in the US, Trillium Europe subcontracted to Federal programs for nearly a decade, supporting Launch.org, developing grand challenges for the Obama Whitehouse and then going on to provide management support to NASA HQ for NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge, “to find all asteroid threats to humankind and know what to do about them”.

In 2015, Trillium worked with NASA’s Office of the Chief Technologist to conceive and deliver the Frontier Development Lab (FDL US) an applied AI research lab focused on space applications. FDL was delivered in partnership with the SETI Institute, who was approached in 2016 to act as prime. Trillium has delivered seven FDL research cycles for NASA and federal partners (2016 – 2022) and has delivered research outcomes for the DOE, USGS, USAID and the US State Dept, tackling projects such as green chemistry, energy futures and violent extremism.

FDL AI workflows are now running on NASA funded programs (such as long-period Comet detection: http://cams.seti.org/FDL/) and Worldview Search and have been published in many peer reviewed journals, such as Science Advances, Acta Astronautica and the Planetary Science Journal. FDL is a case study in the efficacy of public/private partnership, and since its inception, has championed the involvement and engagement of the private sector, where contributions include funding, subject matter experts, facilities, cloud compute and storage, software and AI/ML algorithms.

Private sector partners have included Google, Intel, NVIDIA, Lockheed Martin and Nvidia as well as humanitarian and NGO organizations including Unicef and UNOOSA. All of this work is founded on being deeply embedded in the academic community which enables Trillium to draw on the highest caliber of academic contributors for its project delivery teams.

In 2020, Trillium invested in open science by building the platform SpaceML.org. Space ML develops and distributes open-source space science research and invites scientists to more easily develop derivative investigations.

SpaceML.org takes eligible projects from the research community and enables continued development of those projects beyond pure research to develop and deploy solutions usable in the real world. SpaceML places emphasis on building robust and adaptable MLOPs, reducing transitional failures and ultimately resulting in robust and reproducible deployment outcomes.

Key people in the US

  • Anne Spalding

    Program Director

  • Lior Torenberg

    Deputy Director of Communications and Program Management

  • Jonathan Knowles

    Exploration Director

Jobs Trillium Technologies Inc USA

Trillium Technologies is looking for accomplished program directors and project managers to join our global team. The individuals must have a learning ethic at heart to want to always push the boundaries and explore new innovative ways as part of their role to continue to deliver world-class AI accelerated research programs.

  1. US program directors and project managers, these roles will be based ideally in California, but remote working anywhere in the US

We are looking for people who are just as passionate about machine learning, climate change mitigation, Earth observation and space exploration as we are. You will bring:

  • A strong track record in program development and management

  • Dedication to developing and managing products and the teams to deliver them - especially in social enterprise, not for profit or research settings.

  • A desire to understand or experience of delivering interdisciplinary artificial intelligence and science research from concept to deployment 

  • Joy in creating or guiding written content in all its forms: from tweets to research papers

  • An ability to get the job done with resourcefulness and flexibility

  • An advanced degree level education in social sciences, science, medicine, technology or computing

  • A demonstrable interest in Earth observation, space science and/or machine learning and/or climate mitigation.

If you share our excitement at meeting the best of the best from around the world and seeing first hand how innovation happens from the back of a napkin to deployment in space, this is the opportunity for you. At the same time, you will join a lovely team of ambitious people that will lean forward and work closely with you along everystep of your journey with Trillium. 

If you have any questions or want to find our more about the roles and how to apply - contact Jodie Hughes, HR & Operations Director at jodie@trillium.tech

Without space exploration Humanity cannot grow. Watching FDL grow too, these past six years, continues to be a privilege for NVIDIA, as does assisting the FDL family to accelerate solutions to some of our most profound challenges. Despite the troubles here on Earth, every night we can simply look up & dream. Tonight, look up & know that a growing number of GPUs are smiling back at you.

- Jen-Hsun Huang, President & CEO, NVIDIA