Pickle Robot Company · 4 weeks ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Perception R&D
Charlestown, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$130K/yr - $160K/yr
3+ years expPickle Robot Company is a fast-growing, VC-backed robotics company that automates the unloading process using AI and machine learning. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop scene understanding models and build deployment infrastructure to enhance robot performance in real-world scenarios.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Industrial ManufacturingRobotics
Responsibilities
Build Performance Analysis Systems: You will design systems that automatically analyze robot telemetry and video logs to detect anomalies, quantify perception failures, and provide deep insights into why a robot performed a certain way
Scale the Data Engine: You will take ownership of the data lifecycle. You will build automated pipelines to mine interesting events from fleet data, implement active learning strategies to curate high-value datasets, and drive the continuous improvement of our model suite
Develop Scene Understanding Models: You will train and refine 2D/3D vision models specifically designed for event detection and semantic understanding
Master Edge Deployment: You will own the optimization and deployment of these models. You will use tools like TensorRT and ONNX to ensure our models run efficiently on edge hardware (NVIDIA Orin)
Define Perception Metrics: You will move beyond simple validation loss and define real-world performance metrics that correlate with customer success, visualizing these trends for the broader engineering team
Qualification
Required
3+ Years of Experience in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with a strong focus on MLOps, deployment, or data infrastructure
Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch. You are comfortable writing tooling scripts, data queries, and deployment pipelines
You have experience optimizing models for the edge using TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, or CUDA. You understand how to profile model performance and manage resource constraints
You treat data as a product. You have experience utilizing SQL, data lakes, or vector databases to manage large-scale datasets and automate quality assurance
Familiarity with VLMs and 2D/3D Vision architectures sufficient to debug model failures and understand data needs
You can translate high-level product requirements into specific engineering tasks and explain technical trade-offs to non-expert stakeholders
Familiarity with Docker, AWS/GCP (S3, EC2), labeling platforms 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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