Senior Computer Vision Engineer for Retail AI Production

Simbe Robotics; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Simbe is building the AI powered operating system for physical retail. Our autonomous robots and multimodal computer vision platform turn stores into actionable intelligence for leading retailers worldwide.

We are seeking a Senior Computer Vision / Applied AI Engineer to build production AI systems handling object detection, OCR, barcodes, and visual search, turning messy real-world data into measurable customer impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in computer vision, applied machine learning, robotics perception, or related production AI systems.
• Strong Python experience and hands on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted coding and automation tools to accelerate software development with validation of AI output.
• Experience training and evaluating object detection, segmentation, OCR, visual search, or image recognition models with dataset curation and evaluation.
• Experience building maintainable production code and data pipelines in a Linux based environment.

Responsibilities

• Build production CV models for object detection, segmentation, OCR, barcode localization, product recognition, shelf understanding, and other tasks.
• Own dataset quality through curation, cleaning, versioning, QA, and data audits.
• Improve model performance via architecture, loss, data augmentation, synthetic data, and evaluation.
• Support model releases with validation, release gates, inference wrappers, ONNX/TensorRT exports, and monitoring.
• Develop tooling for evaluation, annotation review, data visualization, and deployment readiness.
• Partner cross functionally with Product, Customer Success, Data, Robotics Software, and Field Operations.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Production ML

Dataset curation

Model evaluation

Linux

Communication

Tools

ONNX

TensorRT

CUDA

FiftyOne

CVAT

Labelbox

Roboflow

ROS/ROS2

Job description

Simbe is building the AI powered operating system for physical retail. Our autonomous robots and multimodal computer vision platform turn stores into actionable intelligence for leading retailers worldwide.

We are seeking a Senior Computer Vision / Applied AI Engineer to build production AI systems handling object detection, OCR, barcodes, and visual search, turning messy real-world data into measurable customer impact.