
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Computer Vision
DeepWalk
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the lifecycle of our computer vision models, including training, evaluation, deployment, and iteration
- Improve model performance in real-world conditions (noise, edge cases, data drift)
- Design and improve data pipelines that process thousands of miles of sidewalks and millions of images
- Lead architectural decisions for handling hundreds of terabytes of geospatial and visual data, including storage layout, pipeline reliability, and inference performance
- Set and evolve best practices around deployment, observability, system reliability, and scalability
- Act as a senior individual contributor and mentor, helping raise the technical bar across the engineering team
- Work closely with the CEO and operations team to turn business needs into clear technical priorities
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience, including direct ownership of production ML or computer vision systems (training, deployment, and ongoing operation)
- Experience taking models from training → production → monitoring → iteration in a real-world environment
- Experience owning system architecture and influencing technical decisions across teams
- Experience deploying computer vision or ML systems in real-world production environments
- Fluency in at least one modern backend language (Python, Java, TypeScript, Go, etc.)
- Strong understanding of system design, scalability, and distributed systems
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Comfort working in a startup or growth-stage environment with changing requirements
Benefits
- $150,000 – $190,000 base salary, based on scope and experience
- Equity
- Unlimited PTO (most of our team takes 3–4 weeks per year)
- Health insurance
- 401(k) with ~4% match (100% on first 3%, 50% on the next 2%)
- Convenient office location in The Loop
- Hybrid work environment (typically 2 days in-office)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
computer visionmachine learningdata pipelinesmodel trainingmodel evaluationmodel deploymentsystem architecturesystem designscalabilitydistributed systems
Soft Skills
mentorshipleadershipcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solving