Staff Deep Learning Engineer
Hayden AISmart City company
San Francisco, United StatesLead
The Rise Fund (TPG)
Drawdown Fund
Autotech Ventures
BootstrapLabs
Mitsubishielectric
Costella Kirsch
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead complex perception projects and mentor engineers at Hayden AI.
- •As a Staff Deep Learning Engineer, you will lead complex perception projects, mentor engineers, and shape the technical direction of the team.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scope perception projects, from design through production Define and document technical approaches; drive alignment across Deep Learning, Platform, and Product teams Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design feedback, and hands-on pairing Contribute to team roadmap and help evaluate and prioritize new technical investments Set and uphold engineering quality standards across model development, MLOps, and deployment Ability to work on abstract and ambiguous problems with different stakeholders like Product and program management and delivering high quality solutions in a timely manner.
- •Requirements Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Robotics, Computer Vision, Electrical Engineering, or a related field Experience: 8+ years building and deploying ML models in production; prior experience in a tech lead or staff-equivalent role preferred Depth: Mastery in at least 2 of the below perception verticals: 3D vision models, Video/temporal behavior models, Vision language models, Foundation models in perception, Nvidia edge device stack Breadth: Working proficiency across model training, evaluation, optimization, cloud and edge deployment, and MLOps Leadership: Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and influence cross-team decisions Personal Attributes: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to write clear design docs and project plans; thrives in a fast-paced startup
Required skills
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnComputer VisionNLPMLflowKubernetesCI/CDDockerPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearch
Domain expertise
ai
Tech stack
PythonTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnComputer VisionNLPMLflowKubeflowAWSGoogle CloudKubernetesCI/CDDockerPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBApache KafkaApache FlinkPandasNumPySparkAirflowdbtTableauPower BILookerSnowflake