Machine Learning Engineer - Vision

Hadrian Automation is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on vision to own the machine learning lifecycle for detection and segmentation models within its manufacturing intelligence pipeline (Copilot/DFM). This onsite role in Torrance, CA centers on developing and deploying computer vision systems and building the tooling, evaluation, and data strategies that support them.

Key Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and deploy object detection and segmentation models for layout analysis, document understanding, and semantic part understanding
• Partner with the core engineering team to build and maintain annotation tooling, implement active learning loops, and engineer synthetic data augmentation strategies
• Create evaluation frameworks that measure system behavior and user impact beyond mAP/IoU
• Collaborate with other members of the machine learning team to define the technical and product roadmaps for the AI platform
• Address performance gaps across the long tail, since accuracy improvements translate to material time savings at Hadrian’s scale

Required Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional experience building and shipping computer vision models, with emphasis on detection and/or segmentation
• Deep expertise in modern architectures with transformer backbones (including ViT and Swin)
• Strong Python and PyTorch fluency, including experience writing custom training loops, loss functions, and data loaders when needed
• Production deployment ownership, including shipping models to production and being responsible for endpoint and model health
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent industry experience considered equally

Technologies

• Python
• PyTorch
• Transformer backbones (ViT, Swin)
• mAP/IoU

Compensation

Target salary range: $160,000 - $250,000 per year. The actual range may vary based on experience.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
• 401k
• Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need
• Flexible vacation policy
• Equity

Work Authorization Requirements (ITAR)

To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), candidates must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Use of AI in Hiring

• Hadrian uses AI-assisted tools in recruiting and hiring processes to support efficiency
• These tools support the team and are not used to make hiring decisions; evaluations and hiring decisions are performed by humans
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