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Autonomy Engineer - Deep Learning Model Acceleration

San Mateo, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $170,000–$170,000🗓 2025-12-15 → 2026-09-25

Core

Building and scaling infrastructure for real-time deep learning inference and MLOps to support autonomous flight systems on drones.

Role type

Senior IC deep learning infrastructure engineer (model acceleration & MLOps)

Builds

High-performance inference pipelines, optimized GPU kernels, and SDKs for autonomous workflows

Domain

Robotics / Computer Vision / Deep Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

MLOps, deep learning inference acceleration, computer vision, image/video processing, GPU kernel development, ML framework expertise, model deployment and monitoring, software lifecycle management

Preferred skills

Vision Language Models (VLMs), training efficiency optimization, complex codebase navigation

Technologies

GPU, MLOps frameworks, ML inference tools, SDK development

Responsibilities

Develop high-performance deep learning inference solutions for CV workloads; Profile CV and VLMs to identify bottlenecks and optimize power efficiency; Design and implement end-to-end MLOps workflows; Implement GPU kernels for custom architectures; Create SDKs for external developers to build autonomous workflows

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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