Operational AI/ML Engineer
SHIRO APPS
Austin, TXPosted April 8, 2026
ContractOn-siteMid-level
Required Skills
PythonAIMLCloudDevOpsSQLNoSQLBashPowerShellCLIComputer VisionCICDPyTorchTensorFlowOpenCVGoRustFeature Engineering
Work Authorization
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- We are seeking an Operational AI/ML Engineer with strong experience in computer vision, AI/ML production, and traffic data analytics. The role involves building and deploying ML models on video data, particularly for real-time traffic monitoring and smart city initiatives.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Python: 1–3+ years production experience
- AI/ML Production: Built and deployed 1–3+ ML models serving real users
- Cloud Platforms: Experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI for ML workloads
- DevOps: Docker and Kubernetes experience
- Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL/vector databases
- Scripting: Proficient in Bash and PowerShell
- CLI: 1–3+ years production experience working in terminal
Strongly Preferred
Experience with real-time traffic video analytics
- Exposure to smart intersections, ITS, or smart city initiatives
- Hands-on experience building computer vision systems for object detection in images/videos
Preferred Skills
- CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Production computer vision experience (PyTorch/TensorFlow, OpenCV, object detection, segmentation, real-time inference)
- Additional languages: Go or Rust for performance-critical components
- Feature stores (Feast, Tecton) or advanced feature engineering
- Model optimization: quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation
- Edge deployment or resource-constrained model deployment
- Experiment frameworks for A/B testing ML models
- Contributions to open-source ML projects
- Real-time streaming data processing (Kafka, Kinesis)