Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ACV Auctions is a technology company revolutionizing how dealers buy and sell cars online. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer IV to drive end-to-end computer vision solutions, improve inspection turnaround time, and enhance valuation accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Design and train high-performance computer vision models for automated damage detection, focusing on precision, recall, and model robustness
- Architect and maintain high-throughput, containerized microservices for model serving using REST/gRPC to ensure low-latency performance
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate complex inspection requirements into scalable, production-grade ML solutions
- Own the end-to-end model lifecycle, from experimentation and design to deployment and optimization in high-traffic environments
- Design and maintain robust data pipelines using Kafka to ensure high-fidelity inputs for model serving and inference
Skills
- Graduate education (MS or PhD) in a computationally intensive domain or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of prior computer vision experience
- Advanced proficiency with Computer Vision frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, OpenCV, TensorFlow) and Python/SQL
- Experience designing and maintaining visual data annotation pipelines and evaluation frameworks for complex, real-world image datasets
- Experience optimizing high-latency models for real-time inference
- Backend software engineering experience in the cloud (AWS / GCP) with a focus on microservices (docker) and the ML model development lifecycle
- Experience building and maintaining streaming data pipelines (e.g., Kafka) for real-time model serving
- Knowledge of ML frameworks and libraries, such as Kubeflow, Databricks, KServe and so on
- Experience designing evaluation frameworks for complex visual data
- Experience leading technical design reviews
Benefits
- Multiple medical plans including a high deductible, low cost health plan
- Company-sponsored (paid) Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, and Life Insurance
- Comprehensive optional benefits such as Dental, Vision, Supplemental Life/AD&D, Legal/ID Protection, and Accident and Critical Illness Insurance
- Generous paid time off options, including uncapped vacation days, the greater of 3 paid sick days or in accordance with the applicable state or local paid sick leave law, 6 paid company holidays, 2 floating holidays, parental leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, voting leave, and other forms of paid leave as required by applicable law or regulation
- Employee Stock Purchase Program with additional opportunities to earn stock in the Company
- Retirement planning through the Company’s 401(k)
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