Senior Vision ML Engineer — Defect Detection in Manufacturing

Front Door Defense; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that accelerate aerospace and defense manufacturing. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the ML lifecycle for defect detection and segmentation at the core of our manufacturing intelligence pipeline.

You will work with the best operators and engineers to deploy end‑to‑end computer vision solutions, spanning geometry, CAD/CAM, high‑performance systems, and full‑stack tooling to transform data into actionable factory insights.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional experience building and shipping computer vision models, with emphasis on detection and/or segmentation.
• Deep expertise in modern architectures using transformer backbones (ViT, Swin, etc.).
• Strong Python and PyTorch fluency: written custom training loops, loss functions, and data loaders from scratch when needed.
• Production deployment ownership: shipped models to production and responsible for endpoint and model health.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent industry experience valued equally.

Responsibilities

• Research, develop, and deploy cutting‑edge object detection and segmentation models for layout analysis, document understanding, and semantic part understanding.
• Work alongside the core engineering team to build and maintain annotation tooling, implement active learning loops, and engineer synthetic data augmentation strategies.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to capture metrics beyond mAP/IoU, quantifying system behavior and user impact.
• Collaborate with ML team to set technical and product roadmaps for the AI platform.
• Burn down the long tail; every percentage point of accuracy maps to saved man‑years at scale.

Skills

Computer vision

Transformer backbones

Python PyTorch

Production deployment

Advanced degree

Education

MS/PhD in CS/EE or related

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories that accelerate aerospace and defense manufacturing. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the ML lifecycle for defect detection and segmentation at the core of our manufacturing intelligence pipeline.

You will work with the best operators and engineers to deploy end‑to‑end computer vision solutions, spanning geometry, CAD/CAM, high‑performance systems, and full‑stack tooling to transform data into actionable factory insights.