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Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics & Computer Vision)

Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder · Remote job · Remote

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About Tar Heel Capital Pathfinder

Venture capital fund and venture builder supporting innovative tech startups. We invest in pre-seed and seed projects, offering strategic advisory and technological expertise.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics & Computer Vision) to join the technical team of a startup building cutting-edge automation solutions. Working closely with the CTO & Co-founder, you will own the product's ML core and shape its technical direction as the company scales. To be clear: This is a highly hands-on role, not a corporate, LLM-wrapper, or prompt-engineering position.

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Stage: Early-stage startup

Product: Robotics automation solutions

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics & Computer Vision) to join the technical team of a startup building cutting-edge automation solutions. Working closely with the CTO & Co-founder, you will own the product's ML core and shape its technical direction as the company scales.

To be clear: This is a highly hands-on role, not a corporate, LLM-wrapper, or prompt-engineering position.

We are looking for an ML/Deep Learning/Vision practitioner with a strong mathematical background who writes custom training loops, designs architectures (PyTorch/TensorFlow), and optimizes models for edge inference. As a primary builder from day one, your mission is to train deep learning models from scratch, develop robust computer vision pipelines, and integrate these capabilities into a commercially viable, physical robotics product within a high-performing engineering culture.

Owning the AI/ML/Vision core of the product, working closely with the CTO & Co-founder to align it with the overall technical strategy,

Writing custom training loops, designing and implementing neural network architectures (e.g., in...

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