Machine Learning Engineer III, Data
ACV Auctions4 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and train computer vision models for automated vehicle damage detection, optimizing precision, recall, and robustness.
- Architect and maintain containerized, high-throughput model-serving services using REST and gRPC.
- Own the ML lifecycle from experimentation and design through deployment, optimization, and production operation.
- Build and maintain Kafka-based streaming data pipelines for model serving and inference.
- Translate stakeholder requirements into scalable, production-grade ML solutions.
- Design visual data annotation pipelines and evaluation frameworks for complex image datasets.
- Optimize high-latency models for real-time inference in high-traffic environments.
Requirements
- Graduate education (MS or PhD) in a computationally intensive domain or equivalent work experience.
- At least 3 years of computer vision experience.
- Advanced proficiency with PyTorch, OpenCV, TensorFlow, Python, and SQL.
- Experience designing and maintaining visual data annotation pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
- Experience optimizing high-latency models for real-time inference.
- Backend software engineering experience in AWS or GCP, including Docker-based microservices and the ML model development lifecycle.
- Experience building and maintaining Kafka streaming data pipelines for real-time model serving.
- Preferred experience or knowledge of Kubeflow, Databricks, and KServe.
Benefits
- Company-sponsored healthcare, dental, vision, life/AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits effective on the date of hire.
- Optional critical illness and supplemental life/AD&D benefits.
- Generous parental leave top-up pay and vacation programs.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program and additional opportunities to earn company stock.
- Retirement planning through the company’s RRSP.
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About ACV Auctions
ACV Auctions operates a dealer-only online wholesale marketplace for used vehicles, alongside data, inspection, transportation, and floorplan financing services for auto retailers and commercial sellers. It earns fees from transactions and ancillary products delivered through brands such as ACV Transportation, ACV Capital, True360, and MAX Digital. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Buffalo, New York, ACV is a public company traded on the NASDAQ.