Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Radar Reinvented. Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM). Echodyne is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our fast-growing team. ROLE OVERVIEW In this role, you’ll develop machine learning capabilities for Echodyne radars and data systems. You’ll work with radar data to enhance our labeling process and improve how our systems detect, classify, and track targets in complex, changing environments. You’ll own work from data exploration and model prototyping through evaluation and production deployment. You’ll make practical tradeoffs among accuracy, latency, computation, and reliability. Your work will have a direct impact on our advanced data systems and growing fleet of fielded radars, helping make them more robust and effective at protecting the infrastructure and people that rely on them in an evolving world. RESPONSIBILITIES - Prioritize and ensure real-world robustness and zero-regression deployment of models to our fleet of fielded radars. - Improve the accuracy and capacity of our data labeling systems by developing active learning methods and automated labeling systems, and by advising on tool design. - Design data augmentation methods that reflect realistic variation in radar deployment environments. - Improve existing track-classification models through hyper-parameter tuning and trading alternative architectures. - Research and develop new applications of machine learning to improve our systems, such as self-supervised generative models utilizing our extensive unlabeled data. - Build training and evaluation pipelines using field data, with particular attention to rare targets, imbalanced classes, and biased datasets. - Define evaluation metrics and assess how models perform across target classes and field conditions, with particular attention to rare, high-impact events. - Analyze model failures, data gaps, and changes in operating conditions to improve robustness. - Partner with cross-functional teams to integrate models into production products. REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE - Strong foundations in machine learning, probability, statistics, and experimental design. - Experience taking machine learning solutions from prototype through production deployment. - Experience with time-series classification. - Experience training and evaluating models on imbalanced datasets. - Experience designing or assessing data augmentation for real-world sensor data. - Experience evaluating model performance, investigating failure modes, and improving data or models based on findings. - Experience deploying models on embedded, resource-constrained systems. - Strong Python software development skills and experience with TensorFlow. - Ability to independently lead an open-ended technical problem and communicate results clearly. DESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE (Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills) - Experience with radar, lidar, or other spatial sensor data. - Experience with real-time processing of streaming data. - C++ experience and familiarity with production software development practices. - Experience designing labeling workflows, managing large datasets, or using active learning to improve data quality. QUALIFICATIONS - MS with 4 years or more or PhD with 2 years or more of relevant experience in computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, or a related field. - U.S. citizenship. This role may require handling export-controlled (ITAR, EAR) data. Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations.  Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. WHAT WE OFFER This is an exempt role. The expected annual salary range for this role is $124,733—$187,048 USD If your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you! We offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including: - RSU (Restricted Stock Units) - Generous Benefits: - Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you - Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA - Virtual Care – 98Point6 - Employee Assistance Program - Mental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera) - Travel Assistance Insurance - Company Paid Life Insurance - Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability - Flexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt) - 401(k) match - Pet Insurance - Prepaid Legal Program - Commuter Benefits - Paid Company Holidays All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.