GrazeMate
Robot Cowboys that Herd Cattle with AI Drones
AI/ML Engineer
About the role
We're hiring an AI/ML Engineer to help build robot cowboys. You'll own the perception and processing models that let our drones see, track, and understand the world below them.
What you'll do
- Build CV models for cattle detection, tracking, and weight estimation across RGB and thermal
- Build segmentation models for paddocks, pasture, and water from aerial and satellite imagery
- Ship models onto field computers under tight performance constraints
- Own the data pipelines behind the models
You should have
- Shipped CV or ML models into production, ideally on edge hardware
- Strong skills in some mix of PyTorch, OpenCV, segmentation, point clouds, and remote sensing
- Built solutions for the real world, ideally in field robotics or sensing systems
- Willingness to travel to our research station and customer deployments to debug in the field
About the interview
- Intro/Screening
- Technical Deep Dive
- 3 day In-Person Work Trial
- FT Offer
About GrazeMate
GrazeMate builds autonomous drones for cattle stations.
We're replacing helicopters and motorbikes with drones that herd cattle, count herds, and monitor pasture on their own. Helicopter mustering is expensive, dangerous, and still misses cattle. Our drones launch from a dock, fly the paddock, do the work, and come home. The only pilot is our RL models.
We went through YC (W26) and raised a seed round from the best investors in the valley. Our team is small and highly technical, and we're already working with some of the largest ranches in the world.
Engineering is based in Sydney, but the work happens everywhere. Expect to write code at a desk, in a truck, and in the dirt. We work hard because our ranchers do.
