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Babel Street · 19 hours ago

Image & Computer Vision AI Engineer

Reston, Virginia, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$140K/yr - $170K/yr

3+ years exp

Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for advanced identity intelligence and risk operations. They are seeking an Engineer on the Image & Computer Vision AI team to develop and deploy computer vision capabilities that support intelligence applications, focusing on image analytics, geolocation, and multimodal AI systems.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big DataEnterprise SoftwareLocation Based ServicesReal TimeSoftware

Senior Management

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Build and maintain computer vision pipelines for image ingestion, preprocessing, inference, and evaluation

Implement facial matching, and identity-related vision workflows in accordance with accuracy, safety, and compliance requirements

Develop and support object detection, image similarity, and scene understanding models

Contribute to image-based geolocation and location inference capabilities using visual features and contextual signals

Support multimodal AI workflows that combine image embeddings with LLM-based search and reasoning

Write clean, maintainable Python code and contribute to production services and APIs

Assist with model evaluation, bias testing, and accuracy monitoring for vision systems

Optimize inference pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency (GPU usage, batching, model selection)

Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to integrate vision capabilities into user-facing intelligence applications

Qualification

Computer VisionImage ProcessingMachine LearningPythonFacial RecognitionObject DetectionImage SimilarityGeolocationModel EvaluationPerformance OptimizationCollaboration

Required

3+ years of experience in computer vision, image processing, or applied machine learning

Hands-on experience with computer vision models and techniques (e.g., CNNs, transformers for vision, feature embeddings)

Experience building or integrating image analytics such as facial recognition, object detection, or image similarity

Strong programming skills in Python; experience with common CV/ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, etc.)

Solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals, model evaluation, and performance tradeoffs

Experience working with large image datasets and production ML pipelines

Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-moving, mission-driven engineering environment

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field required

Preferred

Experience with facial matching or biometric systems in regulated or high-stakes environments

Experience with image-based geolocation or scene/location inference

Familiarity with multimodal AI systems, including combining vision models with LLMs or natural-language search

Benefits

Health Benefits: Babel Street covers 85-100% monthly premium costs for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability insurances – for you and your family!

Retirement Plans: Babel Street offers both a Traditional and Roth 401(K) with a very competitive match.

Unlimited Flexible Leave: We trust our employees to manage their own time and balance their personal and work lives.

Holidays: Babel Street provides employees with 12 paid Federal Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement: We are committed to investing in our employees. One way we do that is with our Tuition Reimbursement Program for continuing education.

Company

Babel Street

Babel Street provides real-time situational awareness and intelligence on global topics of interest.

Founded in 2009

Reston, Virginia, USA

201-500 employees

http://babelstreet.com

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