Hivemapper
AI

Director of Engineering - Machine Learning

Hivemapper · San Francisco, CA, USA · $72k - $100k

Actively hiring Posted over 4 years ago

The R&D team is responsible for bringing - or inventing - state of the art methods from computer vision, machine learning, 3D reconstruction, and data science to our massive imagery network. This includes developing systems for detection, localization, semantic understanding, 3D reconstruction, complex optimization, etc.

We run code on massive processing clusters, as well as at the edge on smart phones and embedded devices.

Hivemapper is currently in alpha mode and already generating billions of frames of 4k street level imagery across 3 continents. We have an internal data QA team who are available for ad-hoc data annotation and qualitative feedback, as well as large scale relationships with high quality data labeling shops.

You are always interested in new challenges and are comfortable learning new technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Keeping up to date with the state of the art, and working to integrate it into our solutions
  • Manage and hire a top team of ML/CV engineers
  • Work with teams all over the company to design and develop novel solutions to hard problems
  • Publishing novel research, supporting open source initiatives, and presenting at conferences
  • Help foster excellence across R&D

Qualifications

  • Experience leading machine learning teams in large-scale production environments
  • Systems engineering experience with real-time and distributed system architecture
  • Experience building systems that process large volumes of data
  • Experience or interest in using the following: AWS, Typescript, Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Rust, ECS, Kubernetes, C++, GPGPU
  • Strong math and analytical skills

What we offer:

  • Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
  • Family Leave Policy
  • 401(k) Program
  • Paid Time Off
  • Commuter Benefits
  • Paid Lunches

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Hivemapper does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Hivemapper does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.

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