Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision

Overwatch Imaging

Join Overwatch Imaging to build, maintain, and optimize data and model pipelines for AI systems. This is a dynamic role perfect for engineers passionate about AI and data handling.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeHood River • Oregon • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $165,000 - $190,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

NumpyPythonPyTorchRemote SensingTensorflow

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and improve training pipelines to support faster, continuous model iteration
Enable scalable experimentation across datasets, model architectures, and training strategies
Improve reproducibility, experiment tracking, and comparison of training runs
Build and refine workflows for: Data indexing, curation, and preprocessing
Label quality validation and dataset management
Data exploration for targeted labeling
Develop evaluation and tests that reflect real-world operating conditions
Improve synthetic data workflows to support targeted model improvement
Train, evaluate, and iterate on computer vision models for: Detection, segmentation, classification, tracking
Continuously explore and evaluate: new model families and research directions
Incorporate multi-modal inputs including: Multiple image bands, Platform and sensor metadata (range, angles, telemetry, etc.)
Optimize models for deployment on embedded GPU platforms like Nvidia Jetson
Balance accuracy, latency, and resource constraints for real-world, real-time workflows

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in machine learning, with a focus on computer vision
B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Hands-on experience building and improving computer vision or perception models in production or real-world systems, especially for object detection, object tracking
Strong understanding of model evaluation, including selecting metrics, building test sets, analyzing false positives/false negatives, and measuring performance over time for iterative improvement
Experience with PyTorch or Tensorflow
Strong understanding of modern computer vision architectures: CNNs, transformers (ViTs), and/or multi-model models
OpenCV, NumPy, or similar
Experience building training and data pipelines for medium to large scale datasets
Strong python skills and solid software engineering fundamentals
Bonus: Aerial imagery, geospatial data, or remote sensing
Bonus: Photogrammetry
Bonus: Multi-modal learning systems
Bonus: Familiarity with state estimation and tracking methods (Kalman Filters, DeepSORT, ByteTrack, etc)
Bonus: Experience with performance languages (C++ or similar)
Bonus: Model deployment onto Nvidia Jetson based edge hardware.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Growth Opportunities: As a team member of a true startup, you will learn by doing and shape our future.
Impact Opportunity: We work on missions that matter to keep people safe and make the world better, and we do it without bureaucracy at the speed of a startup.
Team Collaboration: Work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment with amazing teammates.
Late Start Wednesday: A weekly block to have focus time away from meetings and calls.
Time Off: Generous PTO to empower employees to make decisions about work life balance based on work and home needs.
Holidays: Overwatch Imaging recognizes 10 company holidays.
Ownership: Equity/Stock Options in our rapidly growing company.
Health Benefits: Medical/Dental premiums 100% covered by Overwatch Imaging for employees and their families, plus available pre-tax health savings account.
401K: Employer matching contributions up to 4% of pay.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Object DetectionObject TrackingCNNsTransformersData PipelinesPythonOpenCVNumPyModel DeploymentPerformance Analysis