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Qluu Lab builds Foresight, a prediction model for the motion and behavior of tracked objects. The Founding ML and Evaluation Engineer will independently evaluate and improve the model, establish reproducible benchmarks, run training and ablation studies, deploy models to edge hardware, and lead human-review protocols.\n\nResponsibilities\nBuild the independent evaluation harness. Separate data loading, transforms and metrics from the training code. Pre-register pass/fail gates before looking at test data\nMeasure the deployed selector against strong baselines (constant velocity, Kalman, interacting multiple models) with scenario-clustered confidence intervals. Publish where Foresight wins and where it loses, per domain\nTrain and ablate. Run noise-robustness and selector experiments on GPUs we already have, with clean provenance for every checkpoint (config, data hashes, splits, seeds)\nTake the model to the edge. ONNX export, quantization parity tests, and measured latency and memory on a Raspberry Pi 5 and an Nvidia Jetson. Measured, not estimated\nOwn the human-review protocol: blinded review samples, reviewer agreement, written failure cases\n\nSkills\nHave trained sequence or trajectory models in PyTorch (motion forecasting, time series, tracking, or similar)\nKnow your statistics: grouped splits, leakage, bootstrap confidence intervals, multiple-comparison control\nWrite reproducible code: pinned environments, hashed data, deterministic seeds where it matters\nU.S. person required. You must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual\nKalman/IMM tracking, state-space or Mamba-style models, ONNX/TensorRT/ONNX Runtime, mixed-precision training, defense or simulation data (DIS/HLA), prior work with export-controlled data\nAbility to obtain a U.S. security clearance\n\nBenefits\nRemote-first work arrangement\nEarly equity\nReal authority over what the company is allowed to claim\nDirect line to the technical decisions\n\nCompany Overview\nQluu enables real-time drone defense through an AI operating system compatible with diverse cUAS hardware. It was founded in 2025, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 2-10 employees. 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