Senior Machine Learning Engineer

ML Engineer, Perception | Defense Autonomy | San Francisco (on-site)A well-funded defense autonomy startup is hiring an ML Engineer to build the perception models that let its systems see, navigate and understand their environment in contested conditions.What you'll doOwn models end to end: ideation, data curation, experiment design, training, evaluation and production deploymentBuild object detection, tracking and perception models (segmentation, depth estimation, optical flow)Optimise models for edge hardware so they're lighter and faster without losing qualityWhat they're looking forA track record of building and shipping your own models, not just fine-tuning off-the-shelf onesHands-on edge deployment experience (quantisation, pruning, TensorRT or similar)Nice to have: feature matching, contrastive learning or image correlationThe detailsSan Francisco, fully on-siteSalary: $180,000-$250,000 + equity (Flex for exceptional candidates)US Citizens please - green cards considered if exceptional and from NATO country