Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

$150,000 - $220,000 base salary

Pittsburgh - Onsite

About the company

We're partnering with an early-stage physical AI startup in Pittsburgh. They're building the software that helps robots and autonomous machines learn from real-world data. The founding team comes from Pittsburgh's robotics community and is hiring its first engineers.

The role

As a founding engineer, you'll shape both the ML stack and the engineering culture. You'll build the systems that collect, organize and learn from large amounts of robot data. You'll work side by side with the founders on what gets built and how.

What you'll do

• Build the ML infrastructure for training and testing models on robot data
• Train and evaluate models for perception and decision-making
• Create pipelines that turn raw sensor data into training data
• Make early decisions on tools, architecture and process
• Talk with customers to understand what their robots need

What you'll bring

• 4+ years of experience in ML engineering
• Strong Python and PyTorch
• Experience building ML infrastructure or large data pipelines
• Experience with robotics or sensor data (camera, LiDAR or similar)
• You enjoy ownership and building from a blank page

Nice to have

• ROS or ROS 2 experience
• Cloud experience (AWS or GCP) at scale
• Experience at an early-stage startup