Field AI Vision Engineer - VLM & VFM Deployment

Matroid Inc.

Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 100,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Gym membership reimbursement
Free lunch and snacks
Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Matroid Inc. is seeking a Vision Language Model (VLM) & Visual Foundation Model (VFM) Forward Deployed Engineer in Palo Alto, CA. The role involves training and deploying vision-centric AI systems, defining performance benchmarks, and integrating solutions into customer workflows. Candidates must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field with proficiency in Python and experience with AI frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. The position offers competitive pay, equity, and other benefits including health insurance and a flexible schedule.

Qualifications

  • Experience on modern visual recognition tasks including object detection and segmentation.
  • Ability to design benchmarks for evaluating AI systems rigorously.
  • Strong ability to communicate with technical and commercial audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Train and deploy vision-centric models across industrial domains.
  • Define benchmarks and evaluate AI systems for production requirements.
  • Integrate Matroid into customer workflows with common industrial protocols.

Skills

Strong Python coding skills
Experience with visual recognition models
Solid oral and written communication skills
Ability to evaluate AI systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

PyTorch
TensorFlow
Numpy
OpenCV

Job description

Matroid Inc. is seeking a Vision Language Model (VLM) & Visual Foundation Model (VFM) Forward Deployed Engineer in Palo Alto, CA. The role involves training and deploying vision-centric AI systems, defining performance benchmarks, and integrating solutions into customer workflows. Candidates must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field with proficiency in Python and experience with AI frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow. The position offers competitive pay, equity, and other benefits including health insurance and a flexible schedule.
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