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The company has offices in North America, Europe, and the UAE.\r\nJob OverviewWe are looking for a Senior Python Engineer to own the machine learning behind ZenaTech's defense drones and secure audio products. This is the deepest technical seat on our new Baton Rouge team: you will build autonomy and perception models across the IQ Sphere, Phoenix Interceptor, and ZenaDrone families, and own the voiceprint matching behind Voice Lock, our biometric security product. You will take models from training all the way to running on real edge hardware.\r\nKey ResponsibilitiesBuild and train models for autonomy, target discrimination, and perception across the drone product families.\r\nOwn the Voice Lock voiceprint pipeline end to end - enrollment, matching, and the roster database - against 2027 preview and launch dates.\r\nGet models running within real compute, power, and thermal budgets on edge targets.\r\nBuild an evaluation harness that catches model regressions and runs in CI.\r\nWork with hardware teams on sensor and capture integration.\r\nDocument model provenance, training data lineage, and evaluation results to a standard that holds up to government customer review.\r\nQualifications5+ years of production Python with deep ML framework experience - PyTorch, ONNX, and the quantization and deployment path, not only notebook work.\r\nHas deployed a model to a constrained edge target and worked through quantization loss, latency budgets, and thermal limits.\r\nDepth in computer vision, signal processing, or speaker recognition.\r\nMust be a U.S. citizen and eligible to work in a CMMC Level 2 environment.\r\nPreferredDefense, aerospace, robotics, or national lab experience.\r\nExperience documenting models for regulated or government customers.\r\nBenefitsHealth, dental, and vision insurance\r\n401(k)\r\nPaid time off\r\nArtificial Intelligence We use artificial intelligence to review and screen applications and materials. 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