Founding Computer Vision Engineer — Teach AI to See Ocean Plastic

Retide

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About Retide:

  • Retide uses AI, robotics and environmental data to help organizations better understand plastic pollution.
  • We are a Canadian ocean-tech startup working alongside cleanup organizations and environmental partners.

Where We Are Today:

  • We are part of Canada's leading AI, climate-tech and ocean innovation ecosystems.
  • We have established partnerships globally and begun collecting real-world beach and drone data.

What You'll Work On:

  • Build initial detection and segmentation models from existing drone and beach imagery datasets.
  • Travel to field sites for at least one deployment, working directly alongside cleanup partners.
  • Help decide where to build custom architectures versus adapt existing ones for small-object detection.

Commitment & Compensation:

  • This role can start at 20 hours per week or move to full-time immediately.
  • At our pre-seed stage, this is an equity-based role with intention to transition to salary + equity after next funding round.

Retide

Retide builds AI and robotics infrastructure to help organizations understand and measure plastic pollution in the ocean. It is a pre-seed Canadian ocean-tech startup with a small, ambitious team that values curiosity, ownership, and progress over perfection.

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