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$250,000.00/yr - $350,000.00/yr

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Supporting the USA's leading startups with world class AI & Robotics Talent | Co-Founder of Mentors in Machine Learning | Recruitment like a 5* hotel

Are you passionate about advancing the state of AI and eager to work at the intersection of vision and language? Cerebro are hiring on behalf of an innovative, well-funded AI company, backed by leading investors and guided by experts from top industry backgrounds who are seeking a Member of Technical Staff (Vision-Language Modeling) to join their dynamic research and engineering team.

Join a forward-thinking team thats shaping the future of generative AI infrastructure. This company is recognized for its high-performing generative AI platform and rapid advancements in multimodal and function-calling models. Youll play a vital role in driving research and building production-grade systems that bring cutting-edge vision-language intelligence to real-world applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead R&D efforts in vision-language modeling, including preparing datasets, training models, evaluating results, and deploying solutions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, design, and client teams to translate multimodal capabilities into impactful products.
• Design and implement scalable ML systems for tasks such as image captioning, visual question answering, retrieval, grounding, and multimodal reasoning.
• Develop and train large-scale vision-language models using advanced techniques (e.g., parameter-efficient fine-tuning, distributed training, RL, hyperparameter optimization).
• Build robust, maintainable code in Python for both experimentation and production.
• Analyze and evaluate model performance, driving improvements through empirical experimentation.
• Contribute technical insights to the product roadmap, integrating the latest research and identifying features with strong commercial potential.

What we're looking for:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in machine learning, with a focus on computer vision, NLP, or multimodal systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience with training and deploying large-scale models in distributed computing environments.
• Demonstrated ability to write production-quality code and work collaboratively across teams.
• Experience engaging directly with clients, partners, or external stakeholders to define requirements.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Data Infrastructure and Analytics and Information Services

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