About this role

Define and own the ML strategy and technical roadmap for Gather AI, aligned with product and business objectives
Lead and grow the Machine Learning and FPT teams, establishing a culture of rigor, experimentation, and production-quality delivery
Drive improvements to core computer vision models (object detection, segmentation, OCR) used across our drone and MHE Vision products
Build out MLOps infrastructure — model training pipelines, deployment, monitoring, and CI/CD for ML workloads
Collaborate with the Director of Cloud Engineering and Director of Autonomy to ensure ML systems integrate seamlessly into the broader platform
Partner with Product and Operations to translate customer needs into ML-driven product capabilities

10+ years building and scaling production ML or computer vision systems
5+ years managing and growing ML engineering teams
Deep expertise in computer vision: object detection, image segmentation, OCR, and CNN architectures
Strong Python and PyTorch (or TensorFlow) proficiency, plus a track record of shipping ML models to production at scale
MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field (strong industry track record considered in lieu of advanced degree)

Director of Machine Learning

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