Wyze
Applied Scientist III - VLM R&D
Kirkland, USA · Mid
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 2 days ago
PythonMachine LearningDeep LearningPyTorchData EngineeringNLPComputer VisionResearch
About the role
- In this role, you will track breakthrough research from academia and the broader AI community, and rapidly translate it into our production VLM development.
- We believe in advancing the field, not just our product: we encourage publishing your research and releasing open-source models and datasets to benefit the broader community.
- This is a rare opportunity to shape a category-defining product at the intersection of frontier multimodal research and real-world deployment at massive scale.
Responsibilities
- You will help build the next generation of smart home physical AI - foundation models that understand the physical world of the home.
- You will work with tens of millions of authorized videos to deeply investigate user event patterns and build a physical smart home foundation model that impacts over 10 million Wyze households.
Benefits
- The Opportunity We are looking for an Applied Scientist to drive the development of our in-house vision-language models (VLMs) for smart home video understanding.
Company info
- we encourage publishing your research and releasing open-source models and datasets to benefit the broader community.
- Follow the latest breakthroughs in multimodal and vision-language research from academia and industry, evaluate their relevance, and apply them to our in-house VLM development for smart home video understanding Train, fine-tune, and evaluate multimodal vision-language models on large-scale, real-world home video data Design and run rigorous evaluation pipelines to measure model quality on video understanding tasks such as event detection, activity recognition, and temporal reasoning Investigate user event patterns across tens of millions of authorized videos to inform model design and product direction Contribute to the architecture and training of a physical smart home foundation model, drawing on advances in visual transformers, physical world foundation models, and embodied AI Build rapid proofs of concept using AI-assisted research and development workflows, and carry promising directions from idea to validated prototype Publish research at top venues and contribute open-source models and datasets that help advance the community Help define research problems, set technical direction, and anticipate where academic research and industry solutions are heading What We're Looking For PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or a related field; or a Master's degree with a strong track record of research or applied impact (publications, open-source contributions, or shipped ML systems) Hands-on experience training and evaluating multimodal vision-language models
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