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Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied (Vision)

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-30 → 2026-09-28

Core

End-to-end ownership of vision-language model (VLM) post-training projects for enterprise customers, including data curation, fine-tuning, and evaluation.

Role type

Senior IC applied machine learning engineer (vision-language models)

Builds

Production-ready VLM adaptations and multimodal post-training pipelines for enterprise clients

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Multimodal Machine Learning / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

VLM post-training, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), preference alignment, reinforcement learning (RL), visual data curation, image-text pair curation, synthetic data generation, multimodal evaluation, visual grounding, OCR, document parsing, vision encoders, image-text architectures

Preferred skills

shared multimodal post-training infrastructure, customer-facing ML delivery, advanced alignment techniques

Technologies

SFT, RLHF, synthetic data generation pipelines, vision encoders, image-text architectures

Responsibilities

Translate customer requirements into multimodal post-training specifications, design and execute visual data generation and filtering processes, run supervised fine-tuning and alignment workflows, design task-specific evaluations for visual understanding and document parsing

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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