About Special Projects Engineering LLC At Special Projects Engineering, we rethink problems from the ground up. We’re a small, high-impact team based in Seattle focused on applying advanced AI to complex, often unconventional challenges. Our work spans autonomous systems, predictive infrastructure, synthetic biology, and defense-grade automation. If it’s ambitious, technical, and hasn’t been done before, we’re probably already working on it. What You’ll Do As a Neural Network Specialist, you’ll be responsible for designing and optimizing deep learning architectures that push the limits of what’s technically possible. You’ll collaborate closely with the CTO and a diverse team of engineers, scientists, and domain experts to move ideas from prototypes to deployment.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, train, and evaluate neural network architectures for real-world use
- Work with unstructured data including visual, auditory, textual, and time-series formats
- Develop systems for tasks like perception, decision-making, prediction, and control
- Optimize models for performance, scalability, and deployment on various platforms
- Rapidly iterate on ideas while balancing reliability and experimental curiosity
- Collaborate with hardware, embedded, and software teams to integrate models into real systems
- Contribute to the ML roadmap, infrastructure, and toolchain
What We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience in deep learning or applied neural network research
- Strong Python skills, with additional experience in C++ or Rust preferred
- Expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Solid understanding of training techniques, loss functions, evaluation metrics, and deployment strategies
- Experience with one or more domains like computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, or multimodal models
- Comfortable owning projects from research through production
- Bonus if you’ve worked with robotics, embedded AI, or unusual sensor inputs
Why You Might Care
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Remote-friendly with flexible hours
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Access to top-tier GPU hardware
- Small team, zero bureaucracy, high ownership
- Projects that are genuinely interesting and occasionally a little insane
If you're serious about pushing neural networks into places they've never gone before, apply now and let's get to work.