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.