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Andromeda Surgical, Inc.; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Visa sponsorship

Health stipend

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Andromeda Surgical, Inc. is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to develop models for autonomous surgical robots. You will contribute across the robotics system, ML platform, and training infrastructure, building models from scratch for novel problems and delivering production-quality code.

You’ll collaborate with robotics, software, and clinical teams to deploy capabilities in real-world environments, with a startup mindset and strong emphasis on ownership and rapid iteration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience training machine learning models in real or simulated settings.
• Ability to build models from scratch for novel problems where prior work doesn’t apply.
• Strong debugging and testing skills across a full stack (robotics to ML platform).

Responsibilities

• Train and build machine learning models for robotic applications.
• Work across robotics, ML platform, and training infrastructure.
• Build models from scratch for novel problems without existing research.
• Write clean, production-quality code and tests.
• Collaborate with robotics, software, and clinical teams to deploy capabilities.

Skills

ML model training

From scratch modeling

Debugging & testing

C++ experience

ONNX deployment

Tools

ONNX

C++

Job description

Andromeda is building autonomous surgical robots designed to help surgeons perform procedures more safely, consistently, and efficiently. Our engineers work across robotics, software, hardware, machine learning, and clinical operations to bring robotic systems from concept to real-world deployment. We are a small, highly collaborative team that values ownership, curiosity, technical rigor, and the ability to move quickly from idea to execution.

We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to work across the full stack of our surgical robotic platform: the robotics system, the ML platform, and the infrastructure that powers model training. You will build machine learning models to solve problems specific to surgical robotics, many of which do not have existing research or pre-trained solutions to start from.

What you’ll do

Train and build machine learning models for real-world robotic applications.

Work across the robotics stack, the ML platform, and the infrastructure for model training.

Build models from scratch for novel problems where prior research or pre-trained models do not apply.

Write clean, testable, production-quality code that integrates with the broader system.

Collaborate closely with robotics, software, and clinical teams to bring new capabilities to the robot.

What we look for

Hands-on experience training machine learning models, either in graduate studies or professional work. This is a must, not something to learn on the job.

Ability to build models from scratch for problems where existing research does not apply, rather than only fine-tuning or retraining existing models.

Ability to scope out an ambiguous ML problem and define an approach when there is no established path to follow.

Software Engineering

Ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code.

Experience writing tests and validating software behavior. Testing is a core part of how we build, not an afterthought.

Comfortable working across multiple parts of the technical stack, from robotics to ML platform to training infrastructure.

Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Ownership & Startup Mindset

Strong ownership mindset and ability to independently drive projects forward.

Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.

The project needs to be delivered, and you do what it takes to get it there.

Willingness to seek feedback, iterate quickly, and collaborate closely with teammates.

Nice to have

Experience with computer vision or vision models.

Experience deploying high-performance ML models in production (for example, converting trained models to ONNX or similar formats for C++ inference).

Experience with C++.

Experience with robotics or hardware-adjacent systems.

Experience working in startup environments.

Why join Andromeda

At Andromeda, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a small, highly technical team tackling some of the hardest problems in robotics, software, and healthcare. Your work will directly impact products that are deployed in real clinical environments and have the potential to improve patient outcomes at scale.

We offer

Competitive salary and equity package

Flexible healthcare benefits through an individual coverage reimbursement program

Monthly health and wellness stipend

Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates

The opportunity to help build a category-defining company from an early stage