Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics & Computer Vision)

Location: Remote / EU Stage: Early-stage startup Product: Robotics automation platform About the role We are looking for a Lead Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics & Computer Vision) to join the founding technical team of a startup building a cutting-edge automation platform. Working closely with the CTO & Co-founder, you will own the product's ML core and shape its technical direction as the company scales. To be clear: This is a highly hands-on role, not a corporate, LLM-wrapper, or prompt-engineering position. We are looking for an ML/Deep Learning practitioner with a strong mathematical background who writes custom training loops, designs architectures (PyTorch/TensorFlow), and optimizes models for edge inference. As a primary builder from day one, your mission is to train deep learning models from scratch, develop robust computer vision pipelines, and integrate these capabilities into a commercially viable, physical robotics product within a high-performing engineering culture. Your responsibilities Owning the AI/ML core of the product, working closely with the CTO & Co-founder to align it with the overall technical strategy, Writing custom training loops, designing and implementing neural network architectures (e.g., in PyTorch), and managing the end-to-end lifecycle from raw data processing to edge deployment, Building the AI/ML components of the MVP (managing the end-to-end AI/ML model lifecycle, from architecture design to training and fine-tuning and - w