Senior AI Engineer
Joby Aviation2 years ago
San Carlos, CA, USASenior
Base Salary
$137k - $207k/yr
Responsibilities
- Identify, prototype, and deploy AI/ML and computer vision solutions for manufacturing workflows, including visual inspection, anomaly detection, and traceability.
- Build reliable AI-enabled services, APIs, and data pipelines integrating internal systems, manufacturing equipment, and operational data.
- Measure model quality before and after deployment and build safeguards to prevent incorrect predictions from silently affecting manufacturing decisions.
- Own end-to-end delivery from requirements discovery through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
- Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, and establish patterns and tooling for AI-enabled feature development and operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
- Strong Python skills and experience building AI/ML, computer vision, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience designing APIs, services, integrations, and maintainable system architectures.
- Experience moving prototypes into reliable production systems with strong debugging, testing, and observability practices.
- Clear communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration experience with hardware, operations, manufacturing, or quality teams.
- Preferred experience with computer vision, object detection, segmentation, or image-processing pipelines.
- Preferred experience operating GPU compute for AI workloads, including model serving, inference optimization, or on-premises/hybrid infrastructure.
- Familiarity with ML and LLM tooling, evaluation frameworks, labeling workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, or agentic workflow automation.
- Preferred experience building internal tools or enterprise applications integrated with manufacturing data systems and real-time operational processes.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, employee stock purchase plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and life insurance.
- The position is based at the intersection of software, data, hardware, and aircraft manufacturing; specific remote or office arrangements are not stated.
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About Joby Aviation
Joby Aviation builds piloted, all‑electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for short‑haul air taxi services, developing the vehicles, certification, and operations in-house. The company plans to launch commercial service in the U.S. and Dubai and is scaling manufacturing ahead of entry into service. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, Joby is a public company listed on the NYSE.