Computer Vision & Machine Learning Engineer

About the role

Job Description

Buzz is revolutionizing the analytics and maintenance of power grid infrastructure through our advanced AI solutions. Our computer vision systems analyze critical infrastructure to enhance safety, reliability, and operational efficiency across the power grid network.

We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to advance our computer vision initiatives and help build our foundational model capabilities. You'll bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and production systems, reading papers, adapting novel algorithms, and turning them into reliable, deployed models for power grid analysis. You'll work within a team of experienced ML engineers, with the autonomy to drive your own projects and the support to keep growing.

Responsibilities

Project delivery

Own and deliver end-to-end computer vision projects focused on:

Equipment defect detection

Thermal anomaly identification

Vegetation encroachment monitoring

Surveillance of closed areas for human and animal intrusion

Scope, plan, and execute your own projects from problem framing through production deployment and monitoring.

Deliver on client projects, translating client requirements and raw data into working computer vision solutions.

Contribute to shared team projects, coordinating with other engineers to deliver against common milestones.

Research and experimentation

Stay current with ML/CV research, identify promising methods, and evaluate their applicability to our domain.

Adapt and implement algorithms from papers, validating against baselines and benchmarking for production viability.

Bring the latest advances in deep learning and generative AI to bear on model training, accuracy, and reliability.

Design and execute experiments with systematic hyperparameter tuning, ablation studies, and appropriate baselines.

Perform structured error analysis: categorize failure modes (false positives, missed detections, localization errors, misclassifications) and break down performance by data slices (object size, occlusion, image quality).

Select and justify model architectures based on task requirements, latency, and accuracy tradeoffs.

Engineering and production

Develop production-grade Python libraries for the complete ML lifecycle.

Design and implement data pipelines including ingestion, preprocessing, annotation workflows, and quality monitoring.

Own experiment tracking and model versioning: configurations, random seeds, dataset versions, environment specs, and model checkpoints.

Build model serving pipelines that meet latency and throughput requirements.

Conduct thorough code reviews and write integration tests for ML pipelines.

Collaboration and craft

Share knowledge with teammates and contribute to best practices for model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

Advocate for and uphold software quality standards within the ML team.

Communicate research findings, technical decisions, and model limitations clearly to stakeholders and clients.

Qualifications & Experience

2-5 years of industry experience in computer vision and machine learning.

Solid understanding in modern computer vision and deep neural networks, including:

Object detection

Semantic segmentation

Image classification

Vision transformers and foundation models

Vision language models

Similarity search

Experience taking at least one ML model into production and maintaining it there.

Experience selecting, fine-tuning, and adapting model architectures (CNNs, transformers, foundation models) for specific use cases.

Demonstrated ability to read ML research papers, extract the key ideas, and implement them.

Ability to debug training instabilities and conduct systematic error analysis.

Proficiency in Python and the core ML stack:

PyTorch and Lightning

OpenCV

NumPy and pandas

Scikit-Learn

FastAPI and Pydantic

Strong software engineering practices, including:

Git version control

Unit and integration testing (Pytest)

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

Docker and reproducible environments

Experiment tracking and model versioning

ML DevOps

Python type hinting

Proven ability to own technical projects independently, from problem framing through production deployment.

Desired Additional Experience

Multi-modal computer vision

Custom object detection model development

Generative models for data augmentation

Extracting measurements from GIS and/or drone-metadata-enriched imagery

Model quantization and latency optimization for edge deployment

Systematic hyperparameter tuning at scale

Energy, utilities, geospatial, or industrial inspection domains

Additional information:

This position does not include sponsorship for United States work authorization.