Liquid AI

Liquid AI

Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied (Vision)

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 114 days ago
Machine LearningNLP

About the role

  • This is a rare chance to sit at the intersection of frontier vision-language models and real-world deployment.
  • If you care about visual understanding, data quality, evaluation, and making VLMs actually work in production, this is a chance to shape how applied multimodal AI is done at a foundation model company.

Responsibilities

  • You'll own applied post-training work for VLMs end-to-end for some of the world's largest enterprises, while still contributing directly to Liquid's core multimodal model development.
  • We partner with enterprises across consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with data generation and evaluation for VLM or multimodal post-training.

Nice to have

  • Experience with visual grounding, document understanding, OCR, or video understanding tasks.
  • Experience contributing to shared or general-purpose multimodal post-training infrastructure.
  • Prior exposure to customer-facing or applied ML delivery environments.
  • Familiarity with alignment or RL techniques beyond basic supervised fine-tuning in the multimodal setting.
  • Has made durable contributions to Liquid's general-purpose multimodal post-training pipelines by feeding applied learnings back into baseline model development.

Compensation

  • Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company.
  • Health: We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
  • Financial: 401(k) matching up to 4% of base pay.

Benefits

  • Real ML work: You will fine-tune vision-language models, generate multimodal data, and ship solutions, not configure API calls.
  • Compensation: Competitive base salary with equity in a unicorn-stage company.
  • Health: We pay 100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
  • Time Off: Unlimited PTO plus company-wide Refill Days throughout the year.

Company info

  • We are scaling rapidly and need exceptional people to help us get there.

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