Senior computer vision development talent and rates in Energy & Utilities
Senior computer vision development engineers serving energy & utilities run roughly $150–$220/hr. Stack realities for this combination: Itron + Salesforce E&U Cloud + AWS IoT TwinMaker + private VPC — common integrations: Itron + Landis+Gyr AMI, Salesforce Energy & Utilities Cloud, OSI PI + GE PI System. Demand forecasting; load disaggregation; outage prediction
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).