Senior Computer Vision Architect, Real-Time AI

Triwill Group; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Instacart is seeking a Principal Computer Vision Engineer to shape and scale real-time perception systems for our AI team. You’ll bridge research and production, delivering robust CV pipelines and integrated solutions across mobile and backend ecosystems.

You will collaborate with mobile and backend teams to craft production-grade models, optimize inference for low latency, and drive technical strategy for the AI group, ensuring observable, high-quality algorithms at scale.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience in computer vision, machine learning, or a related field.
• Deep expertise in classic computer vision techniques, including optical flow, multi-view geometry, feature matching, and homography estimation (e.g., using OpenCV).
• Strong foundational understanding of modern deep learning architectures, specifically for object detection, image classification, and semantic/instance segmentation.
• Production-level programming skills in Python.
• Extensive hands-on experience with PyTorch and building scalable model training and evaluation pipelines.
• Proven track record of optimizing complex algorithms for deployment in resource-constrained or real-time environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and Own: Drive the evolution of our core computer vision pipelines, taking algorithms from initial research and training through to highly optimized production deployment.
• Blend Classic & AI: Design and implement robust classic computer vision algorithms alongside deep learning architectures to solve complex spatial, alignment, and tracking challenges.
• Model Development: Train, evaluate, and fine-tune state-of-the-art deep learning models for object detection, classification, and advanced segmentation.
• Optimize for Production: Build and optimize high-performance inference pipelines in Python and C++, leveraging optimization tools like TensorRT and CUDA to ensure low-latency execution.
• Technical Leadership: Drive technical excellence across the AI stack, evaluating new architectures, standardizing our training methodologies, and making pragmatic tradeoffs between accuracy, speed, and compute constraints.
• Deliver End-to-End: Handle technical design, clean architecture, implementation, observability, and iterative improvements of our perception engine.

Skills

Computer vision

Machine learning

Python programming

PyTorch

Deep learning

Real-time optimization

Tools

OpenCV

TensorRT

CUDA

iOS/Android SDKs

Apple frameworks

Job description

Instacart is seeking a Principal Computer Vision Engineer to shape and scale real-time perception systems for our AI team. You’ll bridge research and production, delivering robust CV pipelines and integrated solutions across mobile and backend ecosystems.

You will collaborate with mobile and backend teams to craft production-grade models, optimize inference for low latency, and drive technical strategy for the AI group, ensuring observable, high-quality algorithms at scale.