Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

Who We Are (And Why We Are Different)Our flagship product, Specto, lets clinicians inspect CT and MRI scans in mixed or virtual reality, providing instant spatial understanding of patient anatomy. Our company purpose is to improve patient outcomes. Specto is FDA-cleared and CE-marked, and our eQMS is ISO 13485 certified.We don't believe individuals are a tiny cog in a dull corporate machine. We are a fast-moving startup and our team directly shapes the final product every single day. Decisions get made in the room, by the people who build the thing. If you want your code, your logic, and your decisions to visibly impact our users, you belong here.Job DescriptionWe are looking for a hands-on Machine Learning Engineer to strengthen and accelerate our core development. You will be joining Specto Medical, reporting to the Head of AI.You will build robust AI and image processing pipelines and help turn ideas into production-ready software. We are looking for someone who likes building things, taking ownership, and making complexity manageable within a regulated environment. Our models ship inside the cleared device. You will be performing the following tasks:Accelerate ML Development: Design, build, and optimize image processing and machine learning setups. You will own training and inference pipelines and help us move faster without sacrificing robustness. Master Data Engineering: Take charge of data management, including data governance and data lineage, ensuring our training sets are clean, traceable, and secure. You will own data platform architecture, tooling and standards.Build for Scale and Maintainability: Create solutions that are simple to operate, easy to understand, and built to last. We value systems that make future development easier, not more complicated.Own Your Work: Operate as a true maker. You take a high-level goal, figure out the execution path, and run with it. You are comfortable making decisions and driving things forward.Your ProfileExcellence MindsetYou do not show off your intelligence by building overly complicated solutions.You prove your excellence by breaking down complex problems into simple, elegant, and readable code that the rest of the team can easily understand, maintain and build upon.Core Tech Stack & CapabilitiesYou are completely fluent in Python and PyTorch.You have demonstrated the ability to conceive, implement and maintain sophisticated image processing and machine learning pipelines.You have roughly 5 years of experience doing this in production.Engineering MindsetYou care about building software that works beyond the notebook.You think about maintainability, reproducibility, and long-term quality.You love automating repetitive tasks and naturally build systems that improve reliability and development speed.Strong PlusesExperience working in regulated environments.Experience with 3D medical images.Familiarity with IEC 62304, ISO 14971 and the EU AI Act.Experience with C++ and C#.Non-negotiable RequirementsProficient in written and spoken English.Existing working permit in the EU or Switzerland. We are not able to sponsor a permit for this role.What's In It For You?True impact: direct proximity to the creation process and product strategyAutonomy: freedom to solve problems your way, on a team small enough that nobody needs to lobby for a decisionFast feedback loops and visible resultsA team that runs a lean QMS, where every process step exists because it earns its placeCompetitive salary, Swiss social security and pension benefitsEmployee stock option planPrimary workplace is Basel, Switzerland, with at least 3 days in-office work and flexible working hoursThe opportunity to build software with real clinical impact for surgeons and patientsContacthr@spectomedical.com