Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Flock Safety
Multitask Modeling
$240-310k
+ Offers equity
Public safety operating system
Be an early applicant
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-310k
+ Offers equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- PhD or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 10+ years of experience in computer vision and deep learning
- Proven experience improving multitask learning architectures, particularly with shared backbones and multiple task heads
- Strong proficiency in PyTorch and/or Tensorflow for training deep learning models
- Deep understanding of Deep Learning model concepts, such as convolutional networks, transformers, attentions, losses, learning rates, knowledge distillation, etc
- Good experience with PyTorch, Tensorflow, or JAX, with a track record of improving or extending deep learning models
- Good software engineering skills in Python
- Basic SQL knowledge
- Basic Git knowledge
- Basic Bash knowledge
What the job involves
- Flock Safety is a leading public safety company dedicated to eliminating crime through a full-service offering of hybrid hardware and software systems
- Flock’s computer vision products decode information to search against using several deep learning multitask models with a shared backbone and multiple task heads
- As a Sr. Staff ML Scientist, you will lead the research and development of Flock’s multitask deep learning models
- The First 30 Days
- Focus on onboarding and understanding the existing codebase, datasets, and infrastructure
- Set up a development environment and begin training a model
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Product, to gain insights into workflows and dependencies
- Contribute a small, impactful piece of code on your first day to kickstart engagement
- Review modeling and data systems to understand how they interact and support existing use cases
- Shadow the team to gain exposure to ongoing projects, maintenance tasks, and troubleshooting processes
- Generate a list of potential improvements in model performance, stability, or testability.
- The First 60 Days
- Begin extending enhancements and optimizing models for specific use cases
- Work independently with guidance, bringing forward potential solutions instead of just questions
- Improve training metrics and provide insights on potential refinements
- Conduct cross-validation experiments, analyze results, and refine data strategies
- Generate ideas for dataset improvements and initiate implementations
- Collaborate with senior team members to develop a list of experiments and enhancements, aiming to complete at least four
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Lead and drive advancements by deploying optimizations that improve model performance and usability
- Independently manage tasks with minimal oversight while maintaining transparency
- Contribute to improving the evaluation dataset and model comparison framework for deeper insights
- Review production monitoring systems and recommend improvements
- Enhance model deployment and inference services to optimize efficiency
- Engage in cross-team collaboration to refine strategies and drive impactful changes
- Contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives, such as internal presentations or documentation enhancements
Application process
- Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are
- The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
- The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans
- Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day. Expect to defend all relevant design work in your resume
- The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock Safety provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Feb 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $582.7m
Company benefits
- 🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- 👪Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- 🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- 💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- 📚L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- 🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- 🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies
Company values
- Embrace change to grow - The only “status quo” at Flock Safety are the outdated systems we plan to disrupt. Our employees know the importance of scaling a business that can continue to serve our growing number of customers and communities. We make a plan, but pivot for the greater good.
- Do the work - We value bias towards action and share a strong commitment to solving problems quickly. No task is beneath any of us, and we always go above and beyond to make communities safer.
- Optimism with a plan - Our teams and leaders set lofty goals, but not without thorough planning and sustained accountability. Here at Flock, you contribute to a positive and supportive workplace while benefiting from a high-performance culture.
- Protect the whole community - Our job at Flock is to positively impact all citizens of a community. Our technology impacts millions of lives of people we will never meet, and that is a serious responsibility.
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
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Leadership
Garrett Langley
(CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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