Edge Computer Vision Engineer for Drones!

• Company: Rownd (Rownd.ai / arcedge.ai)
• Position Type: Full-time
• Compensation: Competitive (Salary + Equity, DOE)
• Location: Hybrid-remote (Strong preference for candidates in Raleigh-Durham area, Wisconsin, or other non-traditional tech hubs—outside of SF, NYC, Seattle, etc.)
• Travel: 5-6 weeks of cumulative domestic travel per year (non-continuous, split across ~4 on-site team sessions, client sites, and conventions).  

About Rownd

Rownd is a fast-paced, high-execution technology and hardware startup. We are building 100% autonomous physical assets—deploying custom software and hardware systems for defense and commercial sectors to put intelligent machines in the field.

We don't just write software or integrate off-the-shelf parts; we build the full drone from the ground up. We operate with extreme autonomy, an aggressive bias for action, and a "just do it" mindset. We don't write software to sit in the cloud; we write software to make physical things navigate, sense, and act in the real world. We are constantly pushing the absolute outer edges of what is physically and computationally possible. If you want to settle for what was state-of-the-art two years ago, Rownd is not the place for you. If you want to see your code fly, you belong here.

Position Overview

We are looking for our Edge Vision Person—an engineer who can design, build, and deploy the visual intelligence that powers our autonomous drones and edge assets.

Because we build the full hardware platform, you have complete ownership over the vision pipeline. You aren't handcuffed to someone else's hardware choices; you get to pick the cameras, choose the sensors, select the processor, and design the software stack that gets the job done.

This is not a traditional, slow-paced corporate research role. You won't be training trillion-parameter models on giant server clusters just to write a paper. Instead, you will be designing small, highly-optimized, lightning-fast models that live directly on the edge. You will need to be a "Jack of trades, and a master of SOME." We don't expect you to know everything, but we expect you to be world-class at a few core things, completely unafraid to jump into the rest, and highly transparent about where you need to learn.

You should be highly comfortable using Generative AI and AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLMs) to multiply your output and ship production-grade code rapidly.

Culture, Trust & Expectations

At Rownd, we maintain a high level of trust and exceptionally high expectations.