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Founding Machine Learning Engineer

DRH Search
Full-time
On-site
Irvine, California, United States
We're assisting a profitable startup in Irvine, CA with their search for a Founding Machine Learning Engineer.  They create affordable golf simulator options for people's homes and backyards. This role will work closely with the founder and co-workers in the Irvine office to develop and improve their models.
 
What you'll do:
  • Create digital twins of golfers with 3D pose estimation

  • Create computer vision powered controls for the future of mobile mixed reality gaming.

  • Work with in house biomechanical physicists and golf experts to create features out of 3D pose data.

  • Work hand in hand with owned data collection lab to build training datasets

  • Work closely with the founding team to solve the biggest technological issues facing the growth of golf

What you'll bring:
  • Experience in computer vision & ML engineering,​ with experience in large,​ complex models (not just edge-​device or lightweight ML).​ 
  • Experience building and scaling large ML models for complex,​ high-​dimensional problems.​

  • Track record of solving high‐complexity “hard problem sets” quickly in product‑scale environments.​
  • Demonstrated experience leading R&​D-​heavy projects that integrate ML models into real-​world applications (preferably involving human motion analysis or sports).​

  • Track record of patents and/or published research in ML,​ computer vision,​ or biomechanics.​

  • Degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
  • Fullstack engineering skills

  • Experience training,​ optimizing,​ and deploying ML models on AWS/cloud 

  • Strong experience handling real-​world,​ noisy,​ large-​scale datasets and feature extraction.​

 
  • Clear communication - able to explain complex concepts to technical &​ non-​technical stakeholders.​
  • Experience building 0-1

Nice to haves:
  • Experience working with monocular camera constraints and/or 3D pose estimation.