Early-Career Computer Vision Engineer (Hybrid)

Babel Street; Somerville (MA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Flexible leave

Federal holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Babel Street invites an early-career Engineer to join the Image & Computer Vision AI team. You will help develop and deploy computer vision capabilities powering Babel Street’s intelligence applications.

You will build systems that analyze visual data, including facial matching workflows, object detection, scene understanding, and multimodal AI integrations. This role is suited for someone with foundational CV experience who is eager to grow in a hands-on engineering environment, collaborating

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of experience in computer vision, image processing, applied ML, or related project work.
• Foundational understanding of CV models and techniques such as CNNs, vision transformers, embeddings, or image classification.
• Exposure to image analytics like facial recognition, object detection, image similarity, or related CV apps.
• Proficient Python programming and familiarity with CV/ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV).
• Basic understanding of ML fundamentals, model evaluation, and performance tradeoffs.
• Experience with image datasets through coursework, internships, research, or projects.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-moving, mission-driven engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and maintaining computer vision pipelines for ingestion, preprocessing, inference, and evaluation.
• Support facial matching and identity-related vision workflows with accuracy, safety, and compliance in mind.
• Help develop and test object detection, image similarity, or scene understanding models.
• Contribute to image-based geolocation capabilities using visual features.
• Support multimodal AI workflows that combine image embeddings with LLM-based search and reasoning.

Skills

Python

Computer vision basics

Image processing

ML fundamentals

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

OpenCV

Job description

Babel Street invites an early-career Engineer to join the Image & Computer Vision AI team. You will help develop and deploy computer vision capabilities powering Babel Street’s intelligence applications.

You will build systems that analyze visual data, including facial matching workflows, object detection, scene understanding, and multimodal AI integrations. This role is suited for someone with foundational CV experience who is eager to grow in a hands-on engineering environment, collaborating