Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision

About Overwatch:

Overwatch Imaging is an imagery intelligence technology company working to bring sensor autonomy to time-critical airborne search detectiontrackingand monitoring missions. Our Automated Sensor Operator (ASO) software native to our own line of purpose-built Smart Sensors and as an upgrade for airborne video gimbal platforms bringsSuperhuman VisionandWorkload Reductionto users of real-time imagery intelligence systems. We fundamentally believe that modern edge processing and AI-enabled autonomy can perform an important set of time-critical imagery intelligence missions betterfasterand moresafely than humans can alone.

Founded in 2016 in Hood River Oregon we support private sector companies as well as federalstateand local agencies around the world with missions ranging from wildfire mapping and disaster response to law enforcement border security maritime domainawarenessand tactical intelligence.

About this Role:

Join our dynamic team to build maintain and optimize the end-to-end data and model pipelines that power our core Artificial Intelligence systems. This is a hands-on role perfect for an ambitious engineer who is passionate about taking raw data through the entire lifecycle from scraping and wrangling to production-ready trained models.
This role is remote-friendly with a preference for candidates who can spend occasional time onsite in Hood River OR.

What Youll Do:

• MLOps and Training Infrastructure
  • Design and improve training pipelines to support faster continuous model iteration
  • Enable scalable experimentation across datasets model architectures and training strategies
  • Improve reproducibility experiment tracking and comparison of training runs
• Data Pipelines and Dataset Quality
  • Build and refine workflows for:
    • Data indexing curation and preprocessing
    • Label quality validation and dataset management
    • Data exploration for targeted labeling
  • Develop evaluation and tests that reflect real-world operating conditions
  • Improve synthetic data workflows to support targeted model improvement
• Model Development and Experimentation
  • Train evaluate and iterate on computer vision models for:
    
    • Detection segmentation classification tracking
    • Transformer and multi-modal architectures where appropriate
  • Continuously explore and evaluate:
    • new model families and research directions
    • Domain-specific optimizations for aerial imagery small-object detection
  • Incorporate multi-modal inputs including:
    • Multiple image bands
    • Platform and sensor metadata (range angles telemetry etc.)
      
• Edge deployment and Optimization
  • Optimize models for deployment on embedded GPU platforms like Nvidia Jetson
  • Balance accuracy latency and resource constraints for real-world real-time workflows

What Youll Bring

Core Experience

• 5 years of experience in machine learning with a focus on computer vision
• B.S. M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  
• Hands-on experience building and improving computer vision or perception modelsinproduction or real-world systems especiallyfor object detection object tracking
• Strong understanding of model evaluation including selecting metrics building test sets analyzing false positives/false negatives and measuring performance over timefor iterative improvement

Technical Skills

• Experience with PyTorch or Tensorflow
• Strong understanding of modern computer vision architectures:
  • CNNs transformers (ViTs) and/or multi-model models
  • OpenCV NumPy or similar
• Experience building training and data pipelines for medium to large scale datasets
  
• Strong python skills and solid software engineering fundamentals
  

Bonus

• Aerial imagery geospatial data or remote sensing
• Photogrammetry
• Multi-modal learning systems
• Familiarity with state estimation and tracking methods (Kalman Filters DeepSORT ByteTrack etc)
• Experience with performance languages (Cor similar)
• Model deployment onto Nvidia Jetson based edge hardware
  

What We Offer:

• Growth Opportunities: As a team member of a true startup you will learn by doing and shape our future. The opportunities are limitless for those who want to grow their career.

• Impact Opportunity: We work on missions that matter to keep people safe and make the world better and we do it without bureaucracy at the speed of a startup.

• Team Collaboration: Work in a fast-paced collaborative environment with amazing teammates. The Overwatch Imaging leadership team believes in an open-door policy meaning everyone has a voice and access to guidance advice feedback and the ability to pitch crazy new products or ideas.

• Late Start Wednesday: A weekly block to have focus time away from meetings and calls. An opportunity to work from home flex your schedule or self-directed time to focus on training and development.

• Time Off: Generous PTO to empower employees to make decisions about work life balance based on work and home needs.

• Holidays: Overwatch Imaging recognizes 10 company holidays.

• Ownership: Equity/Stock Options in our rapidly growing company.

• Health Benefits: Medical/Dental premiums 100% covered by Overwatch Imaging for employees and their families plus available pre-tax health savings account.

• 401K: Employer matching contributions up to 4% of pay.

All applicants must be authorized to work on a permanent basis in the United States.

Overwatch Imaging is an equal opportunity workplace and makes employment decisions based on merit and business needs regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age marital status disability gender identity Veteran status or any other protected personal characteristic.

All applicants mustbe authorized towork on a permanent basis in the UnitedStates.

Overwatch Imaging is an equal opportunity workplace and makes employment decisions based on merit and business needs regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age marital status disability gender identity Veteran status or any other protected personal characteristic.

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply even if theydontmeet every requirement listed

in this job description. We value diversity of experience and perspectives and are always looking

for talented individuals to join our team.

Export Control Compliance Notice
This position may involve access to data technology or software that is subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). As such employment is contingent upon the applicants ability to obtain any necessary export authorization asdeterminedby an export compliance assessment conducted by the company.

Required Experience:

Senior IC