Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Remote)

Key Skills

AI technology, Computer Vision (CV), Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Large Language Models - LLMs, MLOps tools, Natural Language Understanding-NLU, PyTorch, TensorFlow

Job Description

Your Impact

Are you passionate about AI. Do you love engineering solutions enabling fast, cutting-edge science. Are you eager to contribute to building products impacting the world for the greater good.

As a ML Engineer at Axon, you will contribute to architecting and implementing the platform used by Axon scientists to transform the public safety space. Collaborating closely with other engineers, you will enable new AI capabilities for Axon products (Fleet, Axon Body, Axon Air, and more) by supporting the training, evaluation, testing and deployment of machine learning models. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will be exposed to a wide range of domains and applications: from computer vision to speech recognition and NLU, LLMs.

The ideal candidate will have a consistent track record of successfully leveraging and managing large-scale distributed platforms for secure and compliant research in the cloud. They will understand the AI lifecycle and be capable of supporting scientists along the development of state-of-the-art AI solutions, thus contributing to transforming the public safety space.

What You’ll Do

• Architect solutions to train and evaluate models on a distributed architecture.
• Optimize the evaluation and training of models within Axon.
• Architect novel, strategic distributed solutions for continuous model improvement.
• Deliver novel, strategic solutions to accelerate innovation.
• Influence to the AI community by developing state-of-the-art solutions for privacy-preserving distributed model training.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience and a proven track record of successfully training
• Proficiency in python, familiarity with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch.
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with at least one cloud environment (such as AWS, Microsoft Azure Oracle, or Google Cloud) and Infrastructure as Code for deploying Platforms at scale.
• Experience with CI/CD solutions in the context of MLOps including automation with IaC (e.g., using terraform).
• Excellent problem solving and software design skills.
• Comfort communicating and interacting with scientists, engineers and ML/product managers.

Preferred

• Master’s Degree/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Electronics, Mathematics or an equivalent highly technical field.
• Hands-on experience in solving Computer Vision or Speech Recognition problems in a business setting.
• Proven track record of significant contribution to distributed architectures for model training.
• Familiarity with responsible AI, de-biasing, encryption and de-identifying techniques.

Benefits That Benefit You

• An awesome office/working environment with the latest technologies
• Competitive salary and benefits including a great medical insurance plan for you and your family
• Free lunch, gym, phone stipend, parking
• Fun team activities and outings
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities for training and rotations in the US
• Opportunities to ride along with real US police officers in real life situations, see them use technology, and get inspired

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 161,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 309,000 in the highest geographic market. The on target earnings range for this role is between USD 268,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 515,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit www.axon.com/careers/benefits