Senior Python ML Engineer — Edge AI for Drones

SDFM; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

ZenaTech in Baton Rouge seeks a Senior Python Engineer to own the machine learning behind our defense drones and biometric security products. You will build autonomy and perception models across the IQ Sphere, Phoenix Interceptor, and ZenaDrone families, and drive the voiceprint matching behind Voice Lock from training to edge execution.

This role sits at the deepest technical seat on the new Baton Rouge team, requiring hands-on deployment on constrained hardware, model provenance, and tight

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production Python experience with deep ML frameworks (PyTorch/ONNX) and deployment paths.
• Experience deploying models to constrained edge targets with attention to latency, power, and thermal limits.
• Depth in computer vision, signal processing, or speaker recognition.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to work in a CMMC Level 2 environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and train models for autonomy, target discrimination, and perception across drone families.
• Own the Voice Lock voiceprint pipeline end-to-end—from enrollment to matching and roster management.
• Ensure models run within real compute, power, and thermal budgets on edge targets.
• Develop an evaluation harness to catch model regressions and run in CI.
• Collaborate with hardware teams on sensor integration.
• Document model provenance, data lineage, and evaluation results for government reviews.

Skills

production Python

deep ML framework

edge deployment

model evaluation

documentation

Tools

PyTorch

ONNX

Job description

ZenaTech in Baton Rouge seeks a Senior Python Engineer to own the machine learning behind our defense drones and biometric security products. You will build autonomy and perception models across the IQ Sphere, Phoenix Interceptor, and ZenaDrone families, and drive the voiceprint matching behind Voice Lock from training to edge execution.

This role sits at the deepest technical seat on the new Baton Rouge team, requiring hands-on deployment on constrained hardware, model provenance, and tight