Blue River Technologies

Machine Learning Engineer

Santa Clara, CA, US

In-person, HybridFull time roleEarly Career

About 1 month ago

About the Job

Job Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and optimize advanced models for various robotics applications.
  • Utilize a range of machine learning and deep learning techniques to enhance the performance of perception systems.
  • Lead efforts in data extraction, ingestion, and intelligent curation for efficient labeling processes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement deep learning-based models.
  • Innovate novel methods to improve detection accuracy and processing speed, particularly for edge devices and real-time field robotics systems.
  • Drive the design and implementation of scalable data processing and annotation pipelines in collaboration with systems software engineers.
  • Take a leading role in the development and deployment of new features for enhancing models.

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science or Robotics Engineering, or related field.
  • 6 months of related experience.
  • Will accept any level of experience in the following skills:
    • Implement computer vision and machine learning systems using semantic segmentation, image & video classification, object detection, supervised, and unsupervised learning;
    • Experience working with data engineers, data scientists, and software engineers through the lifecycle of developing and deploying a machine learning system;
    • Implement computer vision systems using deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras; Preprocess image data using normalization, resizing, cropping, rotation, flipping, and color augmentation;
    • Optimize and fine-tune deep learning models using hyperparameter optimization, transfer learning, regularization methods, ensemble methods, and model layer type modification;
    • Use hardware accelerators including cloud GPUs and high-performance computing GPU clusters to train and test deep learning models;
    • Train and manage labelers for image-data-annotation pipeline including bounding box annotation, and semantic segmentation;
    • Implement code using python libraries including NumPy, SciPy, OpenCV, Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib, CUDA, and TensorRT;
    • Work with Agile framework to collaborate with team members using Github;
  • Utilize database management languages including SQL, MongoDB, Amazon S3, and Boto3.
  • 5% domestic travel required. May work remotely; periodic time in office required; must live within commuting distance of office.

Full time. $126,672 - $193,000/year. Please visit https://bluerivertechnology.com/join-us/ to apply. 

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About the Company

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Blue River Technologies

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

51-100

In 2011, two Stanford graduate students, Jorge (the former head of precision agriculture at Trimble) and Lee (a PhD student and roboticist), met while taking Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad course. They converged on a wild ambition: to make farming more sustainable through robotics and computer vision. Together, they built and tested their idea in California's Central Valley - proving the applicability of machine learning, computer vision, and robotics to the field of agriculture. With an idea, support from friends & family, and a grant from the NSF, Blue River Technology was born. The first smart machine—the lettuce bot—focused on lettuce thinning, a traditionally time-intensive and expensive task of eliminating unwanted lettuce seedlings, The lettuce bot automated this arduous process by taking images, identifying which plants to remove, spraying them, and verifying the accuracy and performance of the system, all in real time. See & Spray is the next generation of Blue River's technology. See & Spray machines leverage deep learning to enable our machines to identify a greater variety of plants—both crops & weeds—with better accuracy, and then make crop management decisions on the spot. Custom nozzle designs enable <1-inch spray resolution, and powerful software powers faster and more agile crop protection. See & Spray is currently operating in weeding for cotton and soybeans.