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Contract Student Worker - Machine Learning Engineer - Data Mining & VLM (Full-time)

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Hybrid (Foster City, CA)$30/hrContractPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Contract, Full-time student worker role focusing on data mining and vision-language model (VLM) tooling to support the Rules of the Road program.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and iterate data miners locating potential RotR Violations following SSO requirements
  • Develop and iterate on VLM/LLM workflows and pipelines for classifying RotR events
  • Curate golden datasets and evaluate triager precision/recall against human triage

Qualifications

  • Extend triagers from simulation to fleet/service data
  • Strong Python / Pyspark / SQL skills
  • Coursework in machine learning, computer vision, or NLP. Understanding of supervised learning, model evaluation, and common sources of dataset bias and label noise.
  • Analyze error cases and translate findings into pipeline improvements
  • Hands-on experience building production LLM/VLM applications, including agentic workflows, RAG, tool calling, evaluation, and/or fine-tuning.
  • Familiarity with software-engineering practices such as Git, unit testing, debugging, and code reviews.

Skills

Required:PythonPysparkSQLMachine learning / NLP / CVLLM/VLM toolingSoftware engineering practices
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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