Research Vision Expertise
45 minutes agoSalary: 350K - 475KSan Francisco, USAHybridFull TimeResearchJobs by Thinking Machines Lab
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Artificial-intelligence research and product company building customizable AI systems, including the Tinker training API and Inkling open-weight models.
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About Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab develops AI products that let researchers and developers fine-tune and use models, while also releasing open-weight multimodal models.
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About the Role
You will lead research on multimodal model training and performance analysis. You will build large-scale datasets and evaluation benchmarks, develop architectures and tools for visual understanding and multimodal reasoning, collaborate on frontier multimodal models and products, and publish and share research outputs.
Requirements
- Experiment design, execution, and analysis
- Research judgment and empirical rigor
- Machine learning fundamentals
- Large-scale training
- Distributed compute
- Proficiency in Python
- Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
- Ability to debug distributed training and write scalable code
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline
- Written technical communication
- Visual reasoning
- Spatial understanding
- Multimodal architecture design
- Multimodal evaluation
- Vision-language modeling
- Video understanding
- Probability and statistics
Responsibilities
- Own research projects on training and performance analysis of multimodal AI models
- Curate and build large-scale datasets and evaluation benchmarks for vision capabilities
- Develop architectures, data, and evaluation tools for visual understanding and multimodal reasoning
- Collaborate to create frontier multimodal models and related products
- Publish and present research and share code, datasets, and insights
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed