ML Engineer
Posted :
10/11/25
About Alta Ares
Alta Ares is a deeptech startup founded in 2024, building real-time AI for defense operations (ISR, C-UAS). Our primary clients are NATO-aligned militaries, with regular deployments during live exercises. Raised €2M pre-seed in May 2025 Products include:
- Real-time AI ISR module deployable on drones and tactical platforms
- Counter-UAS solution enabling autonomous drone takeover under GNSS-denied environment
- Full-stack MLOps platform for training & deploying military-grade AI models
- Data fusion and trajectory prediction
Position details
- Location: Paris (75017), France – Hybrid
- Reports to: Head of Data
- Contract: Full Time
- Start: ASAP
- Experience: 2+ years (Junior / Mid)
Role & Mission
As a Machine Learning Engineer (Computer Vision), you will be responsible for the training, optimization, deployment, and monitoring of deep learning models across our ISR & Counter-UAS product line.
You will work on the full ML lifecycle, from dataset curation to running optimized inference models on edge compute units (Jetson & RPI) or cloud based GPU.
This role is hands-on, technical, and impactful: your work will directly influence field performance.
You will:
- Improve and maintain training pipelines for detection, segmentation, and tracking models.
- Define and automate evaluation frameworks.
- Drive dataset governance: versioning, triage, augmentation, synthetic data, annotation workflows.
- Optimize models for edge inference (weights conversion, quantization, pruning).
- Contribute to deployment workflows and system integration with embedded & onboard compute.
- Implement monitoring & feedback loops to ensure reliability in real operational conditions.
- Work closely with Software, Hardware, and Field Ops teams to iterate quickly from lab → field → deployment
Candidate profile
You have already shipped computer vision models into real usage and you know how to own an ML pipeline end-to-end.
- 2+ years of experience as ML Engineer / Computer Vision Engineer.
- Strong skills in Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch preferred).
- Hands-on experience training and evaluating models on large-scale image/video datasets (detection, segmentation, multi-object tracking).
- Proven usage of experiment tracking and dataset/version governance (ClearML / MLflow / W&B + DVC or equivalent).
- Operates comfortably with MLOps fundamentals: Docker, Git best practices, reproducible pipelines, CI/CD.
- Able to take ownership, propose improvements, write clear documentation, and deliver production-level code, not research-only prototypes.
Nice to Have
- Deployment experience on edge computing hardware (Jetson / RPI), including TensorRT / ONNX Runtime / quantization workflows.
- Understanding of real-time performance constraints (latency budgets, throughput optimization, memory constraints, thermal/power envelopes).
- Experience working in or alongside robotics, defense systems, aerospace, or dual-use applications, where reliability > benchmark scores.
Skills & Values
European & Technolo-gical sovereignty
Rigor & Audacity
Pragmatic, Field-Oriented Innovation
Resilience in Extreme Conditions
What We Offer
- Opportunity to work on real-world ISR & Counter-UAS computer vision projects.
- End-to-end exposure to the ML lifecycle: from dataset preparation to deployment on embedded systems.
- A highly collaborative and multidisciplinary environment with AI, defense, and robotics experts.
- A hybrid and flexible working setup in the heart of Paris.
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