CareerPlan

Multimodal AI Researcher

USARemoteFull-time$120k–$160k2026-11-06 → 2026-11-09

Core

Research and develop AI models that integrate text, images, audio, video, and other data modalities to understand and reason across multiple types of data.

Role type

Senior IC multimodal AI researcher

Builds

Scalable training and inference pipelines for multimodal AI applications including vision-language models and multimodal large language models

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Computer Vision / Natural Language Processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning, transformer architectures, Vision Transformers, contrastive and representation learning, cross-modal attention, self-supervised learning, foundation models, Python, PyTorch or TensorFlow, distributed training, GPU optimization

Preferred skills

Vision-language models (CLIP, BLIP, LLaVA, Florence, Qwen-VL), multimodal large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, speech or audio models, image/video/document/medical imaging datasets, publications at leading AI conferences, open-source AI contributions, Kubernetes, MLOps, model serving, reinforcement learning, RLHF, synthetic data generation

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face Transformers, OpenCV, CUDA, DeepSpeed, Ray, NumPy, Pandas, Git, Docker, Linux, SQL, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, FAISS

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and assess multimodal architectures; Develop and optimize models for image captioning, visual question answering, document understanding, speech-text understanding, video understanding, and multimodal reasoning; Fine-tune, evaluate, and benchmark foundation models with domain-specific datasets; Build scalable training and inference pipelines; Run experiments, analyze findings, and prepare technical reports or research papers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC