Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception R&D
Pickle Robot Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Charlestown • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $140,000 - $175,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSDockerEC2Google Cloud PlatformPythonPyTorch
About the role
- Tame the Long Tail: You will develop strategies to detect and handle "rare events" (novel packaging, damaged goods, occlusion) that break traditional detectors.
- Leverage Foundation Models: You will adapt and fine-tune large-scale foundation models for specific robotic manipulation tasks, toward zero-shot generalization capabilities.
- Model Optimization: You will take massive, compute-heavy models and distill them into efficient, lightweight networks that can run with low latency on edge compute (NVIDIA Orin).
- Drive Technical Excellence: As a senior member of the team, you will stay ahead of the curve on CV/ML research, translate relevant breakthroughs into production-grade gestures and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ Years of Experience in Computer Vision and Deep Learning, with a specific focus on applied research or advanced R&D.
- You have hands-on experience with modern architectures: Transformers (ViT), Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), or Zero-Shot detection.
- Expert-level Python and PyTorch skills.
- You are focused on the "hard" problems (occlusions, reflective surfaces, and variable lighting), and you know when to use a large model versus a simple heuristic.
- Experience with Model Distillation (Student-Teacher networks) and Quantization.
- You can demystify complex AI research and articulate performance implications to engineering and product stakeholders.
- Familiarity with Docker, AWS/GCP (S3, EC2) and experiment tracking tools.
Benefits
- health, dental, & vision insurance
- unlimited vacation
- all federal and state holidays
- 401K contributions of 5% your salary
- travel supplies
- other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Computer VisionDeep LearningTransformersSelf-Supervised LearningVision-Language ModelsZero-Shot DetectionModel DistillationQuantizationPythonPyTorch
Soft skills
MentoringCommunicationProblem SolvingTechnical Excellence