{"id":4283616,"url":"https://alion.io/job/maneva-ai-engineer-us-remote","title":"AI Engineer - US Remote","company":{"id":449917,"name":"Maneva","domain":"maneva.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/maneva","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"AI/ML","role_family":"AI/ML","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Chicago, United States","San Francisco, United States","Dallas, United States","Boston, United States","Atlanta, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Computer Vision","optional":false},{"name":"Fine-tuning","optional":false},{"name":"Knowledge Distillation","optional":false},{"name":"LLaVA","optional":false},{"name":"LoRA","optional":false},{"name":"Model Distillation","optional":false},{"name":"Multimodal AI","optional":false},{"name":"ONNX","optional":false},{"name":"OpenVLA","optional":false},{"name":"PyTorch","optional":false},{"name":"Quantization","optional":false},{"name":"Qwen","optional":false},{"name":"TensorRT","optional":false},{"name":"Vision-Language-Action","optional":false},{"name":"VLM","optional":false},{"name":"YOLO","optional":false},{"name":"CUDA","optional":true},{"name":"Imitation Learning","optional":true},{"name":"LLM","optional":true},{"name":"PEFT","optional":true},{"name":"Post-training","optional":true},{"name":"RLHF","optional":true},{"name":"Sensor Fusion","optional":true},{"name":"Sim-to-Real","optional":true},{"name":"vLLM","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T21:06:55Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T10:35:23Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Maneva\nManeva is building the Thinking Factory: a factory floor that sees, understands, and acts on its own. Our Vision-to-Action AI turns video from off-the-shelf cameras into real-time decisions, with no rip-and-replace of existing infrastructure. We work with mid-market and enterprise manufacturers to deliver end-to-end outcomes, not dashboards:\nHigher yields: catch defects and process drift as they happen, and cut scrap and downtime.\nClosed-loop integration: connect vision insights directly to MES, PLC, and other production systems so findings trigger action.\n Safer, compliant floors: detect safety and compliance risks continuously, instead of relying on periodic audits.\nFounded in 2022, Maneva raised a $27M Series A led by U.S. Venture Partners in June 2026 to push the frontier of our vision models, expand factory orchestration, and bring Thinking Factories to new industries and geographies. The models you build here will run on real production lines, where accuracy, latency, and reliability decide outcomes.\nWhat you'll do\nDefine the technical strategy and architecture for vision models across detection, VLM, and VLA workloads.\nTrain, fine-tune, and adapt models (YOLO variants, open VLMs, VLA policies) on proprietary data, including distillation, quantization, and LoRA-style adaptation.\nBuild data engines: labeling pipelines, auto-labeling with foundation models, active learning, and synthetic or simulated data.\nDesign rigorous evaluation: benchmarks, regression suites, failure-mode analysis, and online metrics tied to product outcomes.\nShip models to production under latency, memory, and cost limits, on cloud GPUs and edge hardware (TensorRT, ONNX, Jetson or similar).\nLead cross-team technical projects; write design docs; review code and models; mentor senior and mid-level engineers.\nTrack the research frontier, decide what is worth adopting, and turn it into prototypes and product.\nRequirements\nWhat we're looking for\n5+ years building and shipping ML systems, with focus on computer vision; BS/MS/PhD in CS, EE, or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nDeep hands-on experience with object detection and segmentation (YOLO family, DETR-style models), including training, tuning, and production deployment.\nHands-on experience with VLMs (for example LLaVA-, Qwen-VL-, or PaliGemma-style models): fine-tuning, prompting, grounding, and evaluation.\nExperience with VLAs or embodied and robot-learning models (for example OpenVLA-, RT-2-, or pi0-style policies), or a clear record in adjacent multimodal work.\nStrong PyTorch skills and fluency with distributed training, mixed precision, and GPU profiling.\nTrack record of taking models from research to production: model optimization, inference serving, monitoring, and iteration on real-world failures.\nEvidence of staff-level impact: setting direction across teams, making sound build-versus-adopt calls, and raising the bar for others.\nClear written and verbal communication with engineers, researchers, and product leaders.\nNice to have\nPublications or open-source contributions in vision or multimodal learning.\nExperience with video understanding, 3D perception, or multi-sensor fusion.\nExperience with simulation, sim-to-real transfer, or reinforcement and imitation learning.\nEdge and embedded deployment experience (TensorRT, CUDA, quantization-aware training).\nExperience with LLM tooling such as vLLM, or with RLHF-style post-training for multimodal models.\nThis role may support work subject to U.S. export controls (ITAR). Access to certain projects may require U.S.-person status (U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) or export authorization.\nBenefits\nWhy Join Maneva?\n Drive operational excellence in a fast-growing AI company transforming manufacturing through cutting-edge vision systems\n Shape the future of project delivery by building scalable processes for AI system deployments\n Work with world-class engineering talent while optimizing team performance and customer success\n Gain exposure to cutting-edge Vision AI & IoT solutions across diverse manufacturing environments\n Lead strategic initiatives that directly impact company growth and customer satisfaction\n Build expertise in the rapidly expanding field of industrial AI and autonomous manufacturing\nCompensation & Benefits\nSalary based on location and experience - market rate\nEquity participation in a high-growth AI startup\nComprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage\nFlexible PTO and professional development opportunities\nRemote-first culture with modern collaboration tools\nImportant Notice: Protecting Your Personal Information\nWe are committed to ensuring the security and privacy of all applicants. Please be aware that our company will never ask for sensitive personal information, via email, phone call or text message. We also do not require payment from applicants for any part of the hiring process.\nIf you are contacted by someone claiming to represent our company and asking for such information, please do not respond. 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