Founding Engineer

The role

You will help establish the New York engineering team by shipping features across the YOLO ML/computer vision surface and the surrounding platform. You will own feature areas from architecture through deployment and connect model capabilities with APIs and production infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own a feature area from requirements and architecture through implementation, testing, deployment, and iteration.
• Ship ML/CV capabilities alongside full-stack interfaces, backend services, and infrastructure.
• Use Copilot or Codex routinely, validating generated code for correctness, security, and maintainability.
• Break ambiguous work into milestones and align dependencies across locations.
• Balance customer needs, technical trade-offs, and commercial deadlines with Product and Engineering.
• Lead design and code reviews.
• Unblock engineers and set standards for testing, observability, and production reliability.
• Strengthen the open-source ecosystem through contributions and technical documentation.

Required qualifications

• Senior-to-principal/distinguished-level industry delivery with tech-lead-level accountability.
• Shipped ML/AI and computer vision work.
• Practical Python and PyTorch proficiency.
• Full-stack capability spanning user interfaces, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, deployment, and production operations.
• Current AI-assisted development experience.
• Strong async communication, work breakdown, and deadline delivery.

Nice to have

• Production experience with TypeScript, React, and Python API frameworks such as FastAPI.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Docker, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and cloud platforms.
• Hands-on model serving, GPU optimization, inference monitoring, or edge deployment experience.
• Contributions to Ultralytics or other open-source projects and engagement with the developer community.
• Early engineering experience building products and establishing technical practices across international teams.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity packages
• On-site collaboration
• Flexible working hours
• 24 vacation days
• Birthday off
• Local holidays
• Tech & tools
• Brand-new Apple MacBook Air/Pro, Apple Studio Display, and AirPods Pro 3
• Dedicated budget for personal and professional growth

Before you apply

• Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country of application.

About the company

Ultralytics is the creator of YOLO models and aims to simplify AI for everyone. The company is expanding rapidly across global hubs in New York, London, Madrid, and Shenzhen.