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In this role, you will design, build, train, and deploy machine learning models that power our robotic sheet metal forming systems. You’ll work closely with our engineering team to transform raw data into actionable intelligence, enabling our robots to produce parts with greater precision, speed, and adaptability.\nThis is a hands-on role for someone who thrives at the intersection of research and production, someone who is just as comfortable wrangling messy datasets as they are architecting scalable ML pipelines. 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