Research, Vision Expertise
San Francisco, CA$350k - $475kfull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Research-focused role at Thinking Machines Lab aimed at advancing multimodal visual perception, multimodal reasoning, and large-scale model training. Combines fundamental research with practical engineering to develop architectures, data, and evaluation tools for multimodal AI that can see, understand, and collaborate.
Responsibilities
- Own research projects on training and performance analysis of multimodal AI models.
- Curate and build large-scale datasets and evaluation benchmarks to advance vision capabilities.
- Work with data infrastructure engineers, pretraining researchers and engineers, and product team to create frontier multimodal models and the products that leverage them.
- Publish and present research that moves the entire community forward. Share code, datasets, and insights that accelerate progress across industry and academia.
Qualifications
- Ability to design, run, and analyze experiments thoughtfully, with demonstrated research judgment and empirical rigor.
- Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, large-scale training, and distributed compute environments.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with at least one deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX). Comfortable with debugging distributed training and writing code that scales.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding.
- Clarity in communication, an ability to explain complex technical concepts in writing.
Skills
Required:Experiment design and analysisPythonDeep learning frameworksLarge-scale trainingCommunication
Benefits
- generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- unlimited PTO
- paid parental leave
- relocation support as needed
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Thinking Machines Lab
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