Senior Machine Learning / Computer Vision Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Machine Learning / Computer Vision Engineer role is onsite in Sunnyvale, CA. Base salary is $200,000–$240,000 per year. Knightscope is a security technology company developing autonomous machines, AI-driven software, and security professionals as an integrated managed service, with a mission to make the United States safer. The engineer takes ownership of the ICM 2.0 audio/video detection engine, leads knowledge transfer from its current vendor, and improves detection quality through model development, evaluation, deployment, and collaboration with backend and MLOps teams.

What you'll do

• Own ICM 2.0 detection models and the training, evaluation, and deployment pipeline
• lead knowledge transfer from the current vendor
• partner with the video and streaming backend team on model serving and inference infrastructure
• partner with the MLOps Engineer on production deployment and monitoring
• improve detection precision, recall, and latency.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior engineer

machine learning

computer vision

audio/video detection

pytorch

model deployment

mlops

sunnyvale ca

knightscope

$200k–$240k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Stock options
• medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401(k)
• paid time off.

Why this role

The posting requires 7+ years in machine learning engineering with production computer vision experience, audio/video detection expertise, and deep-learning framework skills, with PyTorch preferred. Security, safety, public-space detection, edge deployment, and multimodal architectures are listed as nice to have.

About the employer

Knightscope is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.