DeepWalk

Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Computer Vision

DeepWalk

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ChicagoIllinoisUnited 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