Remote ML Engineer: Computer Vision & VLM for Visual Data

orcristtechnologies; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

orcristtechnologies is seeking a hands-on Machine Learning Engineer to build and productize computer vision and visual language capabilities for intelligence and public safety projects. You will blend model research with production engineering to handle petabyte-scale data.

The role requires strong programming, CV/VLM experience, and data-pipeline expertise, with German language skills and full-time work eligibility in Germany.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or related field with excellent academic record.
• Strong programming skills and experience developing or fine-tuning AI/ML models.
• Hands-on experience with computer vision, VLMs, image understanding or related ML applications.
• Genuine interest in data, analytics and data pipelines.
• Self-directed working style with the motivation to learn new technologies quickly.
• Excellent German language skills.
• Eligibility to work full-time in Germany and willingness to undergo security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop, train, evaluate, and fine-tune computer vision and visual language models for real-world use cases.
• Work on object recognition, detection, classification, and identification tasks.
• Build data pipelines, scrapers, and workflows for large-scale visual and geospatial datasets.
• Experiment with state-of-the-art and open-source models and convert promising approaches into dependable systems.
• Process satellite imagery, geospatial data, sensors, and other visual intelligence sources.
• Travel every 2-4 weeks for architecture reviews and team events.

Skills

Programming skills

AI/ML model development

Computer vision

VLMs knowledge

Data pipelines

Self-directed learning

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in a related field

Master's preferred

Tools

TensorFlow/PyTorch

OpenCV

Geospatial data handling

Job description

orcristtechnologies is seeking a hands-on Machine Learning Engineer to build and productize computer vision and visual language capabilities for intelligence and public safety projects. You will blend model research with production engineering to handle petabyte-scale data.

The role requires strong programming, CV/VLM experience, and data-pipeline expertise, with German language skills and full-time work eligibility in Germany.