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)

Work Authorization

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