ML Engineer

Detroit, United StatesOn-site

Requirements

We need an ML Engineer to build the intelligence layer of the company.
experience shipping production models to real users - Deep technical foundation across applied ML, foundation models or novel architectures, and production deployment - Strong in Python, modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or comparable), and the surrounding tooling - Comfortable shipping production code, you build the API, the integration, and the UI when that is what the job needs - Fluent in MLOps, model monitoring, retraining, and the unglamorous work of keeping models alive in production - Experienced
Experience integrating with hardware, PLCs, CNC controllers, or shop floor systems - Open source work, published research, or a portfolio of things you have built This role is full time, in person in Detroit.

Cut-time models, nesting scoring, demand intelligence, sales order parsing, dimensional vision, cert OCR, and the next ten things we have not built yet.
You will: - Own ML end to end across applied production work, novel research, and production deployment - Build cut-time models that predict how long every cut takes by alloy, thickness, geometry, and machine - Build nesting scoring and optimization models that make WAYNE smarter every day - Build demand intelligence and procurement models that tell us what to buy, when, and at what price - Build NLP and LLM features for sales order parsing, RFQ ingestion, and customer communication - Build vision and OCR
Experience building ML for manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, or industrial environments - Strong vision and CV background, cert OCR, dimensional inspection, defect detection - Strong optimization and operations research background, nesting, scheduling, routing - Strong NLP and LLM background, structured extraction, agentic workflows, applied retrieval -

The next generation of American manufacturing is being built right now.
Nox Metals is a technology company in Detroit supplying aluminum plate, bar, and rounds to aerospace and defense manufacturers.
We use software and automation to supply metal to American factories faster than the industry thought possible.