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Witnessing the degradation of their home reef, they united to make a difference. Today, we are an international collective committed to revolutionising ocean conservation and saving coral reefs.\nCG Labs is our technology arm. It builds the tools that help us monitor reefs, measure the impact of restoration and share what we learn with the world, including ReefOS, our underwater camera system.\nPosition Overview\nAs AI/ML Software Engineer, you will turn raw reef data into reliable insight. You will own the embedded software of the ReefOS camera, build the pipelines that process coral reef imagery and bioacoustic recordings, and develop the computer vision and bioacoustics models that power CG Labs monitoring tools.\nYou will work closely with our Science, Hardware, Engineering and field teams to make sure that what is captured underwater becomes accurate, accessible results in our web applications, and that progress and impact are clearly shared across the organisation.\nKey Responsibilities\nEmbedded software\nLead and own end to end the development of the embedded code running on the ReefOS camera.\n\nEnsure reliable, efficient operation under field constraints: power consumption, storage, data capture and on-device processing.\n\nImplement testing, monitoring and update procedures for devices deployed in the field, and work with the Hardware and field teams to diagnose issues and strengthen the system.\n\nData pipelines\nDesign, build and maintain scalable pipelines for large volumes of reef imagery and bioacoustic data.\n\nAutomate data ingestion, processing and delivery, from capture to models and applications.\n\nGuarantee data quality, traceability and efficient storage.\n\nAI models: computer vision and bioacoustics\nDevelop, optimise and deploy state-of-the-art computer vision and bioacoustics models.\n\nManage and curate annotated datasets to continuously improve model performance.\n\nDefine evaluation metrics, track performance over time and iterate.\n\nStay up to date with research and tools relevant to reef and ocean monitoring.\n\nIntegration with web applications\nIntegrate AI outputs into CG Labs web applications so users can access insights and visualisations easily.\n\nDefine with the development team the interfaces and data formats used to deliver model results.\n\nCommunication and documentation\nShare progress and results with the wider team through clear data visualisation and impactful storytelling.\n\nDocument models, pipelines and methods so others can understand, reuse and improve them.\n\nRequired Skills & Qualifications\nExperience:\nStrong experience in machine learning and computer vision; experience in bioacoustics or audio signal processing is a strong plus.\n\nExperience with embedded software and edge devices, ideally in constrained or harsh environments.\n\nExperience integrating models into web applications or APIs.\n\nSkills:\nSolid programming skills in Python and modern ML frameworks (e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow), from training to deployment.\n\nAbility to design and maintain scalable data pipelines and work with large datasets.\n\nGood practices in dataset annotation, curation and model evaluation.\n\nAbility to communicate technical results clearly through data visualisation and storytelling.\n\nRigorous and autonomous, comfortable working across scientific, hardware, engineering and field teams.\n\nGenuine interest in ocean conservation and coral reef restoration.\n\nWhy Coral Gardeners?\nThis is a rare opportunity to put your technical skills to work on a direct, measurable impact for marine conservation. Your models and code will run on real reefs, and the insights they produce will shape how we restore them. Join a passionate, innovative team and help us drive the future of coral restoration. 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