# AI Engineer, Weapon Detection

Cover is an AI security company developing concealed weapon detection systems. Cover’s imaging technology scans students for concealed weapons in K-12 schools in the United States. Our goal is to deter school shootings by identifying concealed weapons inside of bags and underneath clothing. We are headquartered in San Jose, CA with offices in Pasadena, CA and require 5 days/week in-office work. In order to scale to the 130,000 K-12 schools in the United States, we will need to detect weapons with fully autonomous AI models. We are looking for a deep learning engineer to take in sparse point clouds and output weapon models with low false positives. Your goal is to design weapon detection models with low latency and high accuracy to prevent school shootings. Responsibilities: Research, design, implement, optimize and deploy deep learning models that advance the state of the art in autonomous weapons detection models Operate with a commercial mindset to ship working product that can detect weapons at K-12 schools in the U.S. Develop training pipeline including synthetic data generation and validation against real sensor data Train machine learning and deep learning models on a comput

- **Id**: 892584
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/coverai-ai-engineer-weapon-detection>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2024-08-20T17:05:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:52:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 812
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2659
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Logistics, Supply Chain & Logistics Software

## Company

- **Id**: 674280
- **Name**: Cover AI
- **Domain**: coverai.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/coverai>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 5
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 150000
- **Max**: 350000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 350000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 811

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-14T07:56:40Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 2
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.4
- **P active**: 0.175
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 811
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:74, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 350000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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