Senior Computer Vision & Machine Learning Engineer

<p><strong>Job Description</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Buzz is revolutionizing the analytics and maintenance of power grid infrastructure through our advanced AI solutions. Our computer vision systems analyze critical infrastructure to enhance safety, reliability, and operational efficiency across the power grid network.&nbsp;We're&nbsp;seeking&nbsp;an&nbsp;experienced&nbsp;Machine&nbsp;Learning&nbsp;Engineer&nbsp;to&nbsp;help&nbsp;lead&nbsp;our&nbsp;computer&nbsp;vision&nbsp;initiatives.&nbsp;You'll&nbsp;drive&nbsp;the&nbsp;development&nbsp;of&nbsp;cutting-edge&nbsp;models&nbsp;for&nbsp;power&nbsp;grid&nbsp;analysis&nbsp;and&nbsp;provide&nbsp;a&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;anchor&nbsp;on&nbsp;a&nbsp;team&nbsp;of&nbsp;talented&nbsp;ML&nbsp;engineers.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Architect and lead end-to-end computer vision projects focused on: Equipment defect detection, Thermal anomaly identification, Vegetation encroachment monitoring, Surveillance of closed areas for human and animal intrusions</li> <li>Drive&nbsp;innovation&nbsp;by&nbsp;incorporating&nbsp;the&nbsp;latest&nbsp;advances&nbsp;in&nbsp;deep&nbsp;learning&nbsp;and&nbsp;generative&nbsp;AI&nbsp;to&nbsp;enhance&nbsp;model&nbsp;training,&nbsp;accuracy&nbsp;and&nbsp;reliability</li> <li>Develop&nbsp;production-grade&nbsp;Python&nbsp;libraries&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;complete&nbsp;ML&nbsp;lifecycle</li> <li>Mentor&nbsp;team&nbsp;members&nbsp;and&nbsp;establish&nbsp;best&nbsp;practices&nbsp;for&nbsp;model&nbsp;development,&nbsp;evaluation,&nbsp;deployment,&nbsp;and&nbsp;monitoring</li> <li>Advocate&nbsp;for&nbsp;and&nbsp;uphold&nbsp;software&nbsp;quality&nbsp;standards&nbsp;within&nbsp;the&nbsp;ML&nbsp;team</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Qualifications&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Experience</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>7-10&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;industry&nbsp;experience&nbsp;in&nbsp;computer&nbsp;vision&nbsp;and&nbsp;machine&nbsp;learning</li> <li>Deep&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;in&nbsp;modern&nbsp;computer&nbsp;vision&nbsp;and&nbsp;deep&nbsp;neural&nbsp;networks&nbsp;including:&nbsp;Object&nbsp;detection,&nbsp;Semantic&nbsp;segmentation,&nbsp;Image&nbsp;classification,&nbsp;Similarity&nbsp;search,&nbsp;Vision&nbsp;language&nbsp;models</li> <li>Proven&nbsp;track&nbsp;record&nbsp;of&nbsp;deploying&nbsp;and&nbsp;maintaining&nbsp;ML&nbsp;models&nbsp;in&nbsp;production</li> <li>Expert&nbsp;proficiency&nbsp;in&nbsp;PyTorch,&nbsp;Lightning,&nbsp;OpenCV,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Scikit-Learn</li> <li>Proficiency&nbsp;in&nbsp;FastAPI&nbsp;and&nbsp;Pydantic</li> <li>Strong&nbsp;software&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;foundation&nbsp;including:&nbsp;Git&nbsp;version&nbsp;control,&nbsp;Test&nbsp;driven&nbsp;development&nbsp;(Pytest),&nbsp;CI/CD,&nbsp;ML&nbsp;devops,&nbsp;Python&nbsp;type&nbsp;hinting</li> <li>2-3&nbsp;years&nbsp;of&nbsp;proven&nbsp;leadership&nbsp;experience&nbsp;of&nbsp;technical&nbsp;teams</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Desired&nbsp;Additional&nbsp;Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Multi-modal&nbsp;computer&nbsp;vision&nbsp;</li> <li>Custom&nbsp;object&nbsp;detection&nbsp;model&nbsp;development</li> <li>Generative&nbsp;models&nbsp;for&nbsp;data&nbsp;augmentation</li> <li>ML&nbsp;deployment&nbsp;on&nbsp;edge&nbsp;devices</li> <li>Extracting&nbsp;measurements&nbsp;from&nbsp;GIS&nbsp;and/or&nbsp;drone&nbsp;metadata&nbsp;enriched&nbsp;imagery</li> <li>Model&nbsp;quantization</li> <li>Systematic&nbsp;hyperparameter&nbsp;tuning</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Additional information:</strong></p> <ul> <li>This position does not include sponsorship for&nbsp;United States work authorization.</li> </ul>