Liquid AI

Liquid AI

Member of Technical Staff - Multi-Modal, Vision

San Francisco · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 273 days ago
PythonAlgorithmsGitDeep LearningComputer VisionResearch

About the role

  • We have released four best-in-class models and we're just getting started.
  • Success here is measured by the capability of the models we ship.

Responsibilities

  • You'll join a focused, hands-on group that works directly on models and collaborates closely with our pretraining, post-training, and infrastructure teams.
  • You own your work from architecture to deployment.
  • You own a major work-stream (for instance, video understanding, preference data quality, or encoder architecture) end-to-end.
  • Full ownership: You own your work from architecture to deployment.
  • We partner with enterprises across consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience in training or evaluating VLMs with demonstrated experimental rigor.
  • Ability to turn research ideas into scalable implementations, refine and iterate through hypotheses.
  • Experience with distributed training (DeepSpeed, FSDP, Megatron-LM, etc.).
  • Proficiency in Python and at least one deep learning framework.
  • M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field; or equivalent industry experience.
  • Building or optimizing multimodal training or data pipelines.
  • Multimodal post-training experience (SFT, preference optimization, RL-style methods).
  • Dataset design and data quality expertise (quality and diversity assessment, long-tail mining).
  • Prior open-source contributions (code, data, models) on GitHub or Hugging Face.
  • Published research at top AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ECCV, ICLR, ACL, etc.).
  • Experience with computer vision or visual representation learning.
  • Lead a new model capability end-to-end from task spec through data curation, training recipe, ablations, evaluation, and into the final shipped model.
  • Improve visual reasoning through reinforcement learning and preference optimization methods.

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

  • 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
  • The VLM team builds vision-language models that run on-device, under tight latency and memory constraints, without sacrificing quality.

Company info

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

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