Senior Applied ML Engineer, Computer Vision R&D

Blackbird Labs powered by Riwi is partnering with a leading ALPR technology innovator to develop next-generation computer vision solutions. The Senior Applied ML Engineer will take computer vision models from research through deployment, improving detection, OCR, image retrieval, and production AI systems.

Responsibilities:

• Design, train, optimize, and deploy computer vision models
• Improve object detection, image classification, OCR, and image similarity systems
• Research and evaluate modern architectures including CNNs, Transformers, CLIP, and Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
• Optimize inference performance, latency, model size, and scalability
• Convert and deploy models using ONNX and production inference frameworks
• Partner with software engineers to integrate ML solutions into high-volume production environments