Senior computer vision development talent and rates in Coaches & Consultants
Senior computer vision development engineers serving coaches & consultants run roughly $150–$220/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Calendly + Stripe + ConvertKit + Kajabi/Teachable — common integrations: Calendly + Acuity + ScheduleOnce, Stripe + PayPal + Square, ConvertKit + Kit + Beehiiv. AI-coach companion grounded on coach IP; session-summary generation
What computer vision development actually requires in 2026
2026 CV stack: PyTorch + Ultralytics YOLOv8/v11 for detection, Segment Anything Model (SAM) for segmentation, OpenCV for traditional pipelines, ONNX Runtime for cross-platform deploy, TensorRT for NVIDIA edge, Core ML for iOS, ML Kit for Android. Data: Roboflow, Labelbox, V7. CV engineers need PyTorch fluency, dataset curation skills, and deployment-target awareness (edge CPU vs cloud GPU vs phone NPU). Generic ML engineers without CV depth typically over-engineer training pipelines and under-deliver on real-world robustness (occlusion, lighting, scale).