Senior ML Engineer — Maritime Autonomy & Radar Fusion

Tocaro Blue, LLC; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with 4% company matching

Health/dental/vision

Life & disability insurance

Generous PTO

Job summary

Tocaro Blue, LLC seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, train, and deploy ML models for radar and camera fusion in maritime environments. You will advance perception stacks for autonomous ships and work with data from real and simulated environments to enhance object detection and tracking.

Your role emphasizes developing segmentation, classification, and fusion models, plus deploying optimized inference on CPU/ARM64 edge platforms, while collaborating with fusion and autonomy

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field.
• 7+ years applying machine learning and signal processing to dynamic systems.
• Mastery of semantic segmentation and object classification models.
• Expert-level Python skills with ML frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Invent and refine deep learning architectures for Radar and EO/IR imagery, focusing on segmentation and tracking.
• Develop ML pipelines for low-SNR Radar returns and multi-stage contexts.
• Train on large proprietary datasets and perform data collection and annotation.
• Optimize and deploy models to edge hardware, including C++ inference layers.
• Advance fusion-aware ML models integrating Radar with other sensors for robust classification.

Skills

Semantic segmentation

Object classification

Python (TensorFlow/PyTorch)

Edge deployment (C++)

Radar/EO-IR data

Education

MS/PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Robotics, or related field

Tools

TensorFlow/Keras

PyTorch

C++

Job description

Tocaro Blue, LLC seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, train, and deploy ML models for radar and camera fusion in maritime environments. You will advance perception stacks for autonomous ships and work with data from real and simulated environments to enhance object detection and tracking.

Your role emphasizes developing segmentation, classification, and fusion models, plus deploying optimized inference on CPU/ARM64 edge platforms, while collaborating with fusion and autonomy