Jobs · Information Technology · California

Founding ML Researcher

Product Pulse · San Francisco, CA · 2 wk ago
On-siteInformation TechnologyFull-time

What you Will Do

  • Shape the company’s ML research direction and translate research into production-ready document AI models.
  • Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle: research experimentation, training, evaluation, production deployment.
  • Work with engineering team to transition research into deployed, scalable systems.
  • Drive best practices for data, experimentation, evaluation, and model iteration.

What We are Looking For

  • Research-heavy but product-oriented role.
  • Comfortable moving between theory, experimentation, and real-world deployment.
  • Experience with state-of-the-art models for parsing and understanding unstructured data.
  • Experience experimenting with novel techniques to improve layout models and VLM-based document understanding.
  • Experience building data pipelines, evaluating model performance, and integrating models into production systems.
  • Experience working directly with the founders to shape the product direction and engineering strategy.

Bonus

  • PhD or equivalent research experience in VLM, Computer Vision or related areas.
  • Publishations in top-tier AI conferences.
  • Familiarity with model serving, inference optimization, or deployment at scale.

Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive compensation + equity.
  • Full health insurance coverage.
  • Free DoorDash/Uber credits.
  • Free company laptop.

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