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Senior Applied Researcher

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-03-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing and training vision-language models (VLMs) to interpret, reason, and act on large-scale first-person video data in complex real-world environments.

Role type

Senior Applied Researcher (Multimodal AI / VLMs)

Builds

Scalable training and evaluation pipelines for VLMs, post-training approaches (SFT, RLHF), and efficient inference systems.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence, Multimodal Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning model training, Transformer architectures, Vision-language model development, Large-scale dataset handling, Model optimization, Video data processing, Long-context modeling, Parameter-efficient tuning

Preferred skills

Experience deploying models into production, Edge and server-side inference design, Benchmarking for spatial and behavioral understanding

Technologies

Transformers, SFT, RLHF, Video datasets

Responsibilities

Designing and training VLMs on large-scale video datasets, Developing post-training approaches including SFT, RLHF, and parameter-efficient tuning, Building scalable training and evaluation pipelines, Exploring long-context and temporal modelling, Designing efficient systems across edge and server-side inference, Defining benchmarks for spatial and behavioural understanding

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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