Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision (Object Detection)

Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision to set the technical direction for fine-grained object detection, calibrated uncertainty, and production serving.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the computer vision architecture for fine-grained identification, including adapting foundation vision models to a specific catalog
• Define accuracy standards by category and implement calibrated confidence scores so the product expresses uncertainty rather than guessing
• Partner with labeling teams to convert model errors into prioritized improvements for future data collection
• Manage tradeoffs between expanding to new categories and improving accuracy for existing ones
• Own the end-to-end path from model research to production serving, including focus on latency, cost, and reliability
• Communicate model capabilities and limitations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

• 5+ years of applied computer vision experience, including production systems shipped at meaningful scale
• Industry experience in image or item identification, object recognition, or detection, including fine-grained or instance-level classification where closely related items must be distinguished accurately
• Hands-on experience fine-tuning and deploying vision transformers or CNNs using PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Experience adapting foundation vision models, building evaluation frameworks beyond loss metrics, and developing calibrated confidence scoring
• Experience owning production model serving decisions, including latency, cost, and reliability (familiarity with low-latency APIs is useful)
• Strong communication skills and the ability to lead technical decisions in an open-ended problem space
• Plus: experience with active learning, human-in-the-loop labeling, visual search, marketplaces, or an early-stage startup

Technologies

• PyTorch
• TensorFlow
• Vision transformers
• CNNs

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: USD 200,000 - 260,000 per year
• Visa sponsorship: not available

Location

• Hybrid (New York, NY, United States)