Machine Learning Engineer

Zenos•San Mateo, CA
•Onsite

About The Position

Zenos is a highly funded next-gen AI/robotics startup, with strong customer demand. We are delivering AI productivity to the physical world. We’re attacking a trillion dollar market opportunity with a world class team at lightning speed, and having a ton of fun while doing it. This role is for someone who thrives in ambiguity, operates independently, and likes working on interesting and varied problems with smart people from places like Google, Amazon, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, and Apple. Our founders previously started and sold a successful AI company with a nine figure exit, and our CEO has been an executive at a hyperscale tech company. Join us early and take on outsized equity ownership. This is a chance to join a top company with a unique strategy to build the next phase of AI - in the physical world. We have a fun, friendly team, and are hiring fast. We are currently in stealth mode, but excited to launch with major announcements soon.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional experience in top-tier startups, leading technology companies, or elite research labs.
  • Experience in perception, terrain mapping, proprioception, object recognition, segmentation, action planning, VLAs, reinforcement learning, and deep neural nets.
  • Thrives in ambiguity.
  • Operates independently.
  • Likes working on interesting and varied problems.
  • Excited about robotics.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and refine robust and performant ML models.
  • Have a key role in the foundation of our overall AI/ML roadmap.
  • Work with the team to set standards, define the tech stack, and mentor new hires as we scale.
  • Define the problem as you solve it.
  • Work with others to crack big challenges.
  • Dive into multiple parts of the stack and do something that is fundamentally new.
  • Play with small bits of hardware.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + significant equity
  • Whatever resources you need: Blackwell GPUs, etc.
  • Relocation support
  • 100% health coverage
  • Daily lunches
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