CareerPlan

Research Engineer -- Vision and Vision-Language Models

San FranciscoFull-time2026-10-14 → 2026-11-10
On-siteVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Building next-generation vision and vision-language models for image understanding, computer use, and agentic visual tasks.

Role type

Senior IC research engineer (vision-language models)

Builds

End-to-end vision-language models and multimodal systems

Domain

AI / Machine Learning / Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

PyTorch, Python, large-scale model pretraining, post-training, reinforcement learning, vision-language models, multimodal datasets, GPU cluster training, experimental methodology, data processing pipelines

Preferred skills

vision/video/multimodal models, synthetic data generation, computer use agents, GUI understanding, frontend development, published ML research

Technologies

PyTorch, Python, GPU clusters

Responsibilities

End-to-end pretraining and post-training of vision-language models, large-scale vision and multimodal training runs, vision and multimodal dataset sourcing and curation, reinforcement learning for vision-language models, architecture and training methodology ablations, performance optimization of training stacks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC