Glacier
Director of Computer Vision
San Francisco Office, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
The Director of Computer Vision will lead the international CV engineering team and own the vision and execution of the CV roadmap. This technical leadership role involves shaping strategy and coordinating execution across multiple workstreams.
What you will do
- Own the vision, strategy, and execution of the computer vision roadmap
- Lead, mentor, and develop the distributed CV engineering team
- Set project and task-level priorities
- Break complex technical challenges into clear plans
- Provide technical guidance on models, datasets, compute, evaluation, and production performance
- Establish lightweight processes to improve execution and collaboration
- Partner with Software, Operations, Manufacturing, and Field Engineering
- Oversee the labeling function including resourcing, budget, and quality
Required qualifications
- 2+ years of engineering management experience
- 2+ years of hands-on computer vision / ML engineering experience
- Firsthand experience training and deploying computer vision models
- Strong technical understanding of model optimization, dataset quality, compute, evaluation, and production performance
- At least intermediate Python and SQL proficiency
- Experience building technical roadmaps and coordinating complex, cross-functional projects
Nice to have
- Experience working in an early-stage startup environment (<50 employees)
- Industrial automation, robotics, or other real-world physical systems experience
- ML systems deployed at customer sites
- Experience managing or working closely with data labeling teams
- Edge ML or production computer vision experience
Benefits
- Competitive equity compensation
- Benefits
About the company
Glacier is a Series A startup based in San Francisco that builds custom sorting robots and AI-powered business analytics to improve recycling.