Air Defense, Machine Learning Engineer Costa Mesa, California, United States Apply Req ID: 115

$168,000 - $252,000/Yr

Anduril Industries - Costa Mesa, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Costa Mesa, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Machine Learning Engineer for the Air Defense team at Anduril Industries will focus on developing and deploying advanced machine learning models to enhance military capabilities. This role involves leveraging state-of-the-art techniques to solve real-world problems related to air defense, including detection, tracking, and neutralization of unmanned aerial systems. The engineer will be responsible for maintaining core ML pipelines and ensuring the performance of the systems in challenging operational environments.

Responsibilities

• Propose and prototype innovative solutions to solve real world problems, leveraging the latest state-of-the-art techniques in the field.
• Develop and maintain core ML pipelines.
• Train and deploy deep learned models for real-time applications.
• Leverage ML to help evaluate our own system performance live to enable our sensors to interface with systems of systems.
• Curate datasets for evaluating performance and comparing performance trends over time.

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics or Computer Science, with emphasis on Computer Vision.
• BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years experience developing and benchmarking ML algorithms on large-scale datasets.
• Strong ML and CV background.
• Experience deploying models with TensorRT and ONNX.
• Experience with Python development and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• Deployment of algorithms in a compute restricted environment.
• Experience writing and maintaining automated continuous integration tests.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in one or more of the following: Object Detection, Object Tracking, Instance Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Semantic change Detection.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Visual Odometry, SLAM, Multi-view Geometry, Structure from Motion, 3D Geometry, Discriminative Correlation Filters, Stereo, Neural 3D Reconstruction, RGB-D and LIDAR Sensor Fusion.
• Experience troubleshooting and analyzing remotely deployed software systems.

Benefits

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits (100% covered for employee, 90% for dependents).
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance (100% covered).
• Generous company holiday calendar and competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support including fertility and adoption coverage.
• Free mental health resources 24/7 including therapy and life coaching.
• Professional development stipend available to all employees.
• Daily meals and provisions in many offices.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on region.
• Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
• 401(k) retirement savings plan (traditional and Roth).