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QQR Labs is building its first product where machine vision meets physical freight. The full scope and excitement of what we are building will be shared during the interview process.\nQQR Labs is the technology arm of QQR Freight, a platform whose sister companies include an asset-based motor carrier and a nationwide 3PL brokerage. We are not a pitch deck. There are trucks, lanes, revenue, and customers behind this, which means a real-world proving ground and a built-in first customer from day one.\nWe are hiring the first engineer on the product, and you will own it end to end: the hardware in the field, the models on the edge, and the platform customers log into.\nWhat you will build\nRuggedized capture hardware: industrial cameras, IR illumination, Jetson-class GPU compute, cellular backhaul, weatherproof enclosures built for unattended outdoor duty\nOn-device ML: detection, classification, and OCR on vehicles at highway speed, day and night\nThe data platform: high-volume ingestion, entity resolution, search, alerting, APIs\nThe data engine: auto-labeling pipelines, continuous retraining, and evaluation loops fed by real-world captures\nFleet tooling: provisioning, over-the-air updates, and health monitoring for hardware deployed far from a desk\nRequirements\nWho we want\nYou have shipped computer vision on real hardware in the real world, not just in a notebook. 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