Applied AI Inference Engineer
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DockerPythonSpark
Site Engineering Director
Venti Technologies
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
DockerLinuxPython
About the role
- Monitor the day-to-day activities of multiple deployment site teams to ensure proper execution of tasks and workflows.
- Identify and troubleshoot operational bottlenecks, safety concerns, or equipment malfunctions and implement corrective actions.
- Ensure vehicles and staff comply with customer-mandated safety protocols, including mandatory training, valid site access passes, and submitting safety documents (risk assessments, safe work procedures).
- Manage US sites’ office budgets.
- Foster a positive, productive, and inclusive office culture; organize team-building events and community engagement.
- Partner with central HR on local hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, and professional development for deployment site employees.
- Act as the representative for the site to internal company stakeholders and customers; guide on-site teams to communicate needs and achievements.
- Support team members in deployment activities and, in lean situations, perform hands-on tasks: manage software validation test branches, troubleshoot on-site problems, and occasionally implement bugfix coding to reduce recovery time.
- Participate in design reviews and code reviews; provide technical insights to steer major engineering developments.
- Identify test cases for expanding regression test coverage, with specifications for essential behaviors.
- Keep abreast of current state-of-the-art robotics algorithms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in robotics development, including real-world implementation and hands on work with physical robotic vehicles.
- Experience managing small development, deployment or validation teams.
- Academic knowledge in a related robotics domain (perception, prediction, localization, mapping, planning, control, calibration, or remote operations).
- Experience with simulation testing and testing with a physical autonomous vehicle or robot.
- Flexible problem solver with excellent communication skills.
- Flexibility to work across different time zones with an international team.
- (Bonus) Experience in management of production software releases on a customer-fronting role.
- (Bonus) Strong proficiency in Jira, Zephyr, and the Atlassian suite of tools.
- (Bonus) Extensive experience with Git, Linux, and Docker environments.
- (Bonus) Familiarity with robotics middleware such as ROS/ROS2.
- (Bonus) Proficiency in programming languages like C++ and Python, and good OOP coding practice in a Linux environment.
