Machine Learning Engineer - Inference Maintainer & Developer Experience

About the role

Job Description About Roboflow Our mission is to make the world programmable. Sight is one of the key ways we understand the world, and soon this will be true for the software we use, too. We’re building the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence. Roboflow simplifies building and using computer vision models. Today, over 1M+ developers, including those from half the Fortune 100, use Roboflow’s machine learning open source and hosted tools. That includes counting cells to accelerate cancer research, improving construction site safety ,…

Requirements

• Primarily, you like to make great things with passionate colleagues. You are someone who likes to own outcomes, not only inputs. You're motivated by having responsibility and accountability. You're eager to 'do the work,' big and small.
• You're motivated by the question, "How can I improve this?" and have a track record of doing so, even in ways adjacent to your role. Much of our current team is made up of former founders who thrive in the level of autonomy at Roboflow. Maybe you had a side hustle in high school or college.
• You care about open source and the developers who depend on it. One of the best ways to stand out among other applicants is to write about something you've built with Roboflow, or to contribute to one of our open source projects — inference especially. What You'll Do
• Build and maintain inference , our flagship open source and commercial CV inference engine, keeping it healthy and high-quality as contribution volume scales.
• Build an agentic-driven contribution pipeline — automated and semi-automated review, triage, and CI/CD — so we can safely accept a high volume of agent-generated PRs and move from weekly releases toward daily ones.
• Design and grow a world-grounded, ever-expanding test suite that validates real build health across every target (standalone and on-platform), with the goal of nightly end-to-end runs across all of them.
• Define and enforce the "rules of the road" — the review standards and skills that agents and contributors must follow. Exercise sharp judgment on when to merge fast and when to push back, and encode that judgment into the system itself.
• Streamline how new models get added to inference (the most fun part of the job) — making it dramatically faster and easier to bring the latest computer vision and ML models to our users.
• Teach and enable internal teams and customers. Keep our Field Engineers and Support team a step ahead so they can self-serve and go deeper, and help customers get the full value of the product.
• Be the bridge between core engineering and clients — translating new capabilities into docs, demos, stories, and launches which would help people use inference more effectively.
• Contribute to and grow the broader open source community around the project.
• You are an experienced Machine Learning practitioner who wants to be an important part of an exceptional team that focuses on using Roboflow's computer vision tools to impact and improve every industry. You have high agency

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