Pickle Robot Company · 3 weeks ago
Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Perception
Charlestown, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$175K/yr - $195K/yr
5+ years expPickle Robot Company is a fast-growing, VC-backed robotics company focused on revolutionizing warehouse automation. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to advance their perception stack by refining data engines and deploying 2D/3D vision models to production hardware.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Industrial ManufacturingRobotics
Responsibilities
Architect Multi-Modal Vision Systems: You will design and train models that fuse 2D inputs with 3D geometry to solve complex grasping and scene understanding tasks
Lead End-to-End Model Deployment: You will own the transition from research to reality. This includes model graph optimization, quantization (TensorRT), and runtime integration to ensure low-latency inference on our edge compute hardware (NVIDIA Orin)
Drive Technical Excellence: As a senior member of the team, you will conduct rigorous code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to the strategic perception roadmap
Own the Data Strategy: You will take ownership of our existing labeled dataset and pipeline. You will identify bottlenecks, improve data quality, implement active learning strategies to systematically resolve edge cases and improve model robustness
Ensure Production Reliability: You will write high-performance production code (Python/C++) to seamlessly integrate perception outputs into the broader robotic control stack, prioritizing safety and system stability
Qualification
Required
5+ Years of Experience in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with a track record of shipping ML products to the physical world (Robotics, AV, or IoT)
Expert-level Python and PyTorch skills
Working knowledge of C++ for deployment and system integration
Experience with 2D Vision (YOLO, MaskRCNN, Transformers) and 3D Vision (PointNet, grasp generation, multi-view geometry, camera calibration)
Proficient with inference optimization tools such as TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, or CUDA to maximize hardware utilization
Experience curating large-scale datasets, detecting statistical bias, and automating quality assurance within the ML pipeline
Ability to 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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