Deep Learning Engineer
Carbon Robotics5 months ago
Base Salary
$140k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and execute experiments to develop and validate deep learning architectures for agricultural computer vision
- Own model optimization and deployment pipelines for reliable, scalable field deployments
- Drive end-to-end ML workflows from data strategy and pipeline design through evaluation and production deployment
- Define team best practices for experimentation, documentation, and model evaluation
- Partner with Engineering and Product Management to scope, prioritize, and deliver features
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to mid-level and junior engineers
- Communicate model architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and performance results to technical and non-technical audiences
Requirements
- 2–7 years of experience in deep learning model optimization and deployment
- BS+ in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 2–4 years of professional experience designing and implementing novel deep learning architectures for production computer vision systems
- Deep understanding of foundational deep learning mathematics and first-principles architecture decisions
- Hands-on experience across the software stack, including sensor integration and web services
- Experience with PyTorch and proficiency in C++ for performance-critical model development and deployment
- Experience taking ML projects through data strategy, pipeline development, experimentation, and large-scale deployment
- Expertise in modern object detection techniques, including vision transformers, anchor-free detectors, and embeddings
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical culture
- Experience with autonomous driving or ADAS, perception pipelines, sensor fusion, or real-time inference in outdoor or unstructured environments is preferred
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and dependents
- Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA
- Virtual care through Doctor on Demand
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Health HRA
- Restricted healthcare travel support
- Menopause support
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401(k) plan
- Pet insurance
- Commuter benefits
- Pre-IPO stock options
- Full-time U.S.-based employees work in the Seattle office at least 4 days per week; contractors are not eligible for benefits or stock
Categories
ML EngineeringRobotics
About Carbon Robotics
Carbon Robotics builds and sells the LaserWeeder, an AI- and computer-vision-guided field robot that kills weeds with high‑power lasers for specialty crop farms. More than 100 growers use LaserWeeders across North America, Europe, and Australia. The company also offers Carbon Autonomy, a retrofit tractor‑autonomy kit for John Deere machines. Founded in 2018, it is privately held, headquartered in Seattle, with manufacturing in Richland, Washington.