Sr. Computer Vision Engineer
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COMPUTER VISION ENGINEER
Panoptyc is seeking an exceptional Senior Computer Vision Engineer to architect and train cutting-edge models for retail object recognition and drive our edge deployment strategy.
ABOUT THE ROLE
You'll be joining our awesome team of hardware, full-stack and CV engineers developing our next generation computer vision capabilities, building and optimizing models that power real-world retail applications. This role demands someone who can move seamlessly from training custom YOLO architectures to deploying optimized models on edge devices - and from fine-tuning open-source VLMs to building VLA pipelines that reason about and act on what they see.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Model Development: Design, train, and iterate on custom object detection models specifically tuned for retail environments, inventory tracking, and product recognition
- VLM & VLA Integration: Fine-tune and deploy open-source vision-language models (LLaVA, Qwen-VL, InternVL, PaliGemma, etc.) for product understanding, zero-shot classification, and scene reasoning; build vision-language-action pipelines that translate visual understanding into downstream decisions
- Edge Optimization: Take state-of-the-art models and make them blazingly fast for edge deployment through quantization, pruning, and architectural optimization
- Dataset Engineering: Build robust data pipelines and annotation workflows to continuously improve model performance on diverse retail scenarios
- Research & Innovation: Stay ahead of the curve on CV and VLM research, prototype new architectures, and determine what's actually production-ready versus academic noise
- Technical Leadership: Mentor engineers, establish best practices for model development, and drive technical decisions around our CV infrastructure
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