Pickle Robot Company · 3 weeks ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Perception R&D
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $175K/yr
5+ years expPickle Robot Company is a fast-growing, VC-backed robotics company aiming to revolutionize warehouse automation. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to focus on robotic perception, utilizing advanced AI techniques to enhance the efficiency and reliability of their automation systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Industrial ManufacturingRobotics
Responsibilities
Tame the Long Tail: You will develop strategies to detect and handle "rare events" (novel packaging, damaged goods, occlusion) that break traditional detectors
Leverage Foundation Models: You will adapt and fine-tune large-scale foundation models for specific robotic manipulation tasks, toward zero-shot generalization capabilities
Model Optimization: You will take massive, compute-heavy models and distill them into efficient, lightweight networks that can run with low latency on edge compute (NVIDIA Orin)
Drive Technical Excellence: As a senior member of the team, you will stay ahead of the curve on CV/ML research, translate relevant breakthroughs into production-grade gestures and mentor junior engineers
Qualification
Required
5+ Years of Experience in Computer Vision and Deep Learning, with a specific focus on applied research or advanced R&D
Hands-on experience with modern architectures: Transformers (ViT), Self-Supervised Learning (SSL), Vision-Language Models (VLMs), or Zero-Shot detection
Expert-level Python and PyTorch skills
Focused on the 'hard' problems (occlusions, reflective surfaces, and variable lighting), and know when to use a large model versus a simple heuristic
Experience with Model Distillation (Student-Teacher networks) and Quantization
Ability to demystify complex AI research and articulate performance implications to engineering and product stakeholders
Familiarity with Docker, AWS/GCP (S3, EC2) and experiment tracking tools
Benefits
Health, dental, & vision insurance
Unlimited vacation
All federal and state holidays
401K contributions of 5% your salary
Travel supplies
Other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive
Company
Pickle Robot Company
We believe the best working experience is one where machines do the heavy lifting and people do the problem solving.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$102.45MKey Investors
RanpakHyperplane
2024-11-11Series B· $50M
2024-05-03Series B· $15M
2022-11-15Series A· $26M
Leadership Team
Andrew Meyer
CEO
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Dan Paluska
Co-founder, VP of Robotics
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