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# Computer Vision Engineer

- **Company:** Creative Alignments
- **Location:** Boulder, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $145,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, C++ (Programming Language), Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Software Debugging, Linux, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, OpenCV, Posix, Pytorch, ONNX (Open Neural Network Exchange) Format, TensorRT
- **Published:** August 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us71f51333bb1f2a1ab5c319e32a1d86e1/eaa

## About the Role

* 3-5 years of experience in computer vision, machine learning, robotics, autonomy, or a closely related domain
 * Fluency in Python and C++ with hands on use of PyTorch, ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, OpenCV, or comparable deployment tooling
 * Direct experience deploying models to embedded or edge hardware, including trade offs around compute, memory, and thermal behavior
 * Comfortable in terminal driven Linux/POSIX environments for deployment, profiling, and debugging on target systems
 * Eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. DoD Secret security clearance
 * Preferred: experience with aerial, remote sensing, or geospatial imagery, visual navigation or visual inertial odometry, or defense adjacent environments like Blue UAS or NDAA sourcing

## Description

* Design, train, evaluate, and refine computer vision models for onboard detection, tracking, classification, and scene interpretation
 * Build and maintain inference pipelines optimized for latency, throughput, memory, and thermal limits on edge accelerators like Jetson class devices, FPGAs, or NPUs
 * Work directly with autonomy, embedded, and payload engineers to integrate perception into the broader flight and mission software stack
 * Support bench, flight test, and post flight debugging to trace perception issues through the sensor and software stack and drive them to resolution
 * Develop repeatable evaluation workflows measured against real mission requirements rather than generic benchmarks

Who You Are
You've personally built, optimized, and shipped computer vision systems that ran on physical hardware in the field, not just in experimentation. You're equally comfortable in Python and C++, you use AI tools like Copilot or Cursor as part of your normal workflow to move faster, and you can trace a failure from sensor input through inference to downstream software and see it through to a fix.


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