Edge CV/ML Engineer for Autonomous Drones

Sunflower Labs; Stallikon; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sunflower Labs is seeking a CV/ML engineer to enhance perception in our autonomous drone-in-a-box system in Zurich. This on-site role joins a small, CV/ML‑focused team responsible for turning prototypes into deployable software.

You will design and optimize real‑time vision and learning components, train models, and integrate edge‑device pipelines (Jetson/Dragonwing). English communication and Swiss work permit are required.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Solid understanding of computer vision and machine learning fundamentals.
• Strong programming skills in Python and C++.
• Experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow, OpenCV, ROS/ROS2, CUDA, TensorRT.
• Experience with end-to-end model development: dataset curation, labeling strategies, active learning workflows to deployment and optimization for edge devices.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop a wide variety of computer vision and machine learning features for real-time UAV applications.
• Train, fine-tune and evaluate deep learning models for tasks such as object detection, semantic segmentation, image retrieval/reidentification.
• Optimize algorithms and models for edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson and Qualcomm Dragonwing), and integrate them into our image and video processing pipelines.
• Monitor ML model performances in real world deployments and set up workflows for continuous improvement (data collection, curation, labeling, retraining, evaluation).
• Integrate large/vision language models into our system, and design, test and maintain queries for tasks like scene understanding, situational awareness and hazard analysis.

Skills

Python

C++

OpenCV

PyTorch/TensorFlow

ROS/ROS2

CUDA/TensorRT

Edge devices

English

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

GStreamer

Jetson platform

TensorRT

CUDA

Qualcomm edge devices

Job description

Sunflower Labs is seeking a CV/ML engineer to enhance perception in our autonomous drone-in-a-box system in Zurich. This on-site role joins a small, CV/ML‑focused team responsible for turning prototypes into deployable software.

You will design and optimize real‑time vision and learning components, train models, and integrate edge‑device pipelines (Jetson/Dragonwing). English communication and Swiss work permit are required.