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Founding AI/ML Engineer

Santa Clara, CA💼 Full-time💰 $1–$3🗓 2026-09-20 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and scale the infrastructure layer for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to turn images, PDFs, and video into structured data for production automation.

Role type

Founding AI/ML Engineer (Infrastructure & Platform)

Builds

Enterprise VLM inference stack, developer APIs for multimodal apps, and scalable backend systems.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

LLM integration, Python, FastAPI, async API design, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, TDD, GitHub workflows

Preferred skills

SaaS product shipping experience, full-stack platform development

Technologies

OpenAI, HuggingFace, Ollama, vLLM, GCP, AWS

Responsibilities

Own and optimize the VLM inference stack end-to-end; Design clean, ergonomic APIs for multimodal apps; Take ideas from 0→1 and define production-grade visual intelligence standards.

Seniority

Founding, hands-on IC

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