Liquid AI · 13 hours ago
Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer; Multi-Modal - Vision
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior LevelLiquid AI is a company spun out of MIT CSAIL that builds AI systems for various industries. They are seeking a Member of Technical Staff to take ownership of vision-language models that operate on-device and under real-time constraints, focusing on training experiments and data pipelines.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Design and run large-scale VLM training experiments on distributed GPU clusters
Own pre-training or SFT pipelines for multimodal models
Build data pipelines for image-text datasets at scale
Collaborate on vision encoder architecture and image compression tradeoffs
Help grow the team through interviewing and network referrals
Qualification
Required
Has expertise in VLMs: This role hits the ground running. You'll tackle real problems from day one
Takes ownership: We give people problems, not tasks. We need someone who will own an end-to-end workstream and deliver outcomes
Writes production code: Our models ship to customers. We need code that's maintained, not one-off research prototypes
Stays resilient: Training runs fail. Experiments don't work. We need someone who iterates through setbacks
Direct VLM experience (training, architecture, or significant research)
Distributed training at scale (PyTorch Distributed, DeepSpeed, FSDP, or Megatron-LM)
Production-quality coding ability
Can work independently
Preferred
Video understanding experience
Data quality or dataset design expertise
Vision encoder or image compression research
Benefits
We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents
401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay
Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year
Company
Liquid AI
Build efficient general-purpose AI at every scale.
Founded in 2023
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$293.1MKey Investors
AMD VenturesOSS Capital L.P.
2024-12-13Series A· $250M
2023-12-01Seed· $37.5M
2023-05-05Seed· $5.6M
Leadership Team
Ramin Hasani
Co-founder and CEO
Mathias Lechner
Co-founder and CTO
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