Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Computer Vision)

DeepWalk is a fast-growing venture that helps cities keep people safe using computer vision to map and monitor their sidewalks. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the technical direction of their computer vision platform, focusing on large-scale imagery, production ML systems, and data pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Own the lifecycle of our computer vision models, including training, evaluation, deployment, and iteration
• Improve model performance in real-world conditions (noise, edge cases, data drift)
• Design and improve data pipelines that process thousands of miles of sidewalks and millions of images
• Lead architectural decisions for handling hundreds of terabytes of geospatial and visual data, including storage layout, pipeline reliability, and inference performance
• Set and evolve best practices around deployment, observability, system reliability, and scalability
• Act as a senior individual contributor and mentor, helping raise the technical bar across the engineering team
• Work closely with the CEO and operations team to turn business needs into clear technical priorities
• Build a strong understanding of our current computer vision systems and data pipelines
• Identify the biggest scaling, reliability, and maintainability gaps as we grow
• Propose and begin executing on a clear plan to improve how we deploy, monitor, and operate production ML systems
• Become a trusted technical partner to leadership