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Senior ML / Computer Vision Engineer

knightscope

You will own the detection intelligence at the heart of Signals: the ICM 2.0 audio/video detection engine, currently built by a third-party vendor. You will lead the knowledge transfer, take over model ownership, and drive measurable improvement in detection quality over time.

About knightscope

KSCP) is a security technology company building the nation's first Autonomous Security Force: autonomous machines, AI-driven software, and elite security professionals operating as one integrated managed service.

The Company is on a mission to make the United States of America the safest country in the world.

One Team.

One Force.

Responsibilities

  • ONSITE - Sunnyvale, CA About the Role You will own the detection intelligence at the heart of Signals: the ICM 2.0 audio/video detection engine, currently built by a third-party vendor.
  • You will lead the knowledge transfer, take over model ownership, and drive measurable improvement in detection quality over time.
  • Own ICM 2.0 detection models and the training, evaluation, and deployment pipeline.
  • Lead knowledge transfer from the current vendor on the detection engine.
  • Partner with the video/streaming backend team on model serving and inference infrastructure.
  • Partner with the MLOps Engineer on production model deployment and monitoring.
  • Drive measurable improvement in detection precision, recall, and latency.

Requirements

  • Qualifications 7+ years in ML engineering with production computer vision experience.
  • Experience productionizing models at scale.
  • Comfort taking ownership of an existing model codebase from a third party.

Preferred

  • Audio/video detection model expertise .
  • Strong deep learning framework skills ( PyTorch preferred).
  • Security, safety, or public-space detection use cases.
  • On-device inference or edge deployment experience.
  • Multimodal (audio plus video) detection architectures.

Benefits

  • $200,000 to $240,000 (DOE) Equity: Stock options Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid time off Location Requirement: Full-time, on-site at Sunnyvale HQ