Remote ML Research Engineer — Production-Ready AI

Bright Vision Technologies; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Machine Learning Research Engineer to bridge research and production, building scalable ML systems for real-world problems. You will design, evaluate, and deploy end-to-end ML pipelines with a focus on safety and performance.

Remote-first role based in the Continental United States, full-time W2 with no C2C. You’ll mentor engineers and collaborate with product teams.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a closely related field; or equivalent applied experience.
• Six or more years of combined research and applied ML engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• Experience taking ML models from research prototype to production with observability and safeguards.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and evaluate applied AI solutions across NLP, vision, recommendation, and structured data domains.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped ML formulations with clear success metrics.
• Stay current with the latest research in deep learning and LLMs and assess applicability to internal use cases.
• Implement rigorous experimentation workflows including baselines, ablations, and statistical evaluation.
• Build production-quality training and inference pipelines using modern ML frameworks and orchestration tools.
• Collaborate with ML platform engineers to ensure efficient use of compute, storage, and accelerators.
• Optimize models for accuracy, latency, throughput, and cost based on production requirements.
• Develop tooling for dataset construction, labeling, validation, and monitoring of data quality.
• Partner with product, design, and domain experts to ensure model behavior aligns with user needs and policy requirements.
• Implement safety, fairness, and reliability evaluations and incorporate findings into model selection.
• Document research findings and operational characteristics for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor engineers on applied ML methodology and responsible deployment.
• Influence the broader AI roadmap based on research insights.

Skills

Python

ML engineering

PyTorch

JAX

Distributed training

Communication

Literature review

Production observability

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/ML/Statistics or related

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Machine Learning Research Engineer to bridge research and production, building scalable ML systems for real-world problems. You will design, evaluate, and deploy end-to-end ML pipelines with a focus on safety and performance.

Remote-first role based in the Continental United States, full-time W2 with no C2C. You’ll mentor engineers and collaborate with product teams.