Specter
ML Research Engineer
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 292 days ago
RustC++Vector DatabasesLinuxMachine LearningPyTorchData EngineeringComputer VisionLLMsRAGAgentic AIEmbedded SystemsResearch
About the role
- Specter is hiring a perception AI engineer responsible for turning sensor data pipelines into actionable insights for our customers.
Responsibilities
- Building and scaling a production-grade data-collection, labelling, and model re-training platform
- Driving the design behind a multimodal software user interface
- Today, we build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents that answer any question, anywhere in their environments.
- Our co-founders Xerxes and Philip are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast approaching world of physical AI and robotics.
Requirements
- Experience optimizing model runtimes utilizing techniques such as quantization, pruning, low-rank adaptation, etc. where appropriate
- Strong experience in C++/Rust development in embedded systems and knowledge of Linux fundamentals
- Strong knowledge of CUDA fundamentals
- Experience with image/video processing, filtering, and enhancement.
- Knowledge of various video codecs desirable.
- Experience with variety of sensor types such as EO and IR cameras
- Familiarity with Rust (or ability to come up the curve quickly!)
- 5+ years of experience training, implementing, and deploying deep-learning based computer vision models in tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, object tracking, etc. (both single and multi-frame) in frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorRT, and ONNX
- Experience fine-tuning, implementing, and deploying vision-language models and large language models in frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorRT-LLM, and ONNX
- Experience building production-grade RAG pipelines, and scaling vector databases in production
- Experience with image/video processing, filtering, and enhancement. Knowledge of various video codecs desirable.
Benefits
- Implementing and deploying a variety of deep-learning based vision, vision-language, and large language models to our world-class distributed perception system
- We are a small, fast growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.
Company info
- Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world.
- We offer both long range wireless (1km range) and wired sensor variants to suit any deployment.
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