Senior CV Engineer

Social Discovery Group; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Vacation 28 days

Wellness days 7

Referral bonuses up to 5000

Training/international conferences 50%

English lessons discount

Health benefits allowance

Workplace reimbursement every 3 years

Job summary

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is hiring for a senior AI/ML engineer to advance diffusion models and multimodal AI capabilities. You will develop photorealistic visuals, work with CV components and language models, and drive improvements across training, validation, and deployment pipelines.

The role emphasizes rapid experimentation, scalable deployment, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. Remote work options are available, with a focus on building higher-fidelity visual experiences

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience training diffusion models and modifying architectures.
• Proficiency with diffusers and transformers libraries.
• Hands-on experience with IP-adapters.
• Backend engineering experience in Python, Go, or C# is an advantage.
• Knowledge of scalable deployment systems.

Responsibilities

• Train and fine-tune generative models (text2image, image2image, video2image, IP-adapters) to produce photorealistic and stylized visuals.
• Work with image classifiers, rankers, and image/video captioning models that understand visual context.
• Track cutting-edge CV research and open-source developments to translate them into a CV roadmap.
• Build and own the iterative model improvement process, including quality validation systems.
• Optimize inference performance through diffusion optimization, quantization, and kernel-level work.
• Optionally train multimodal AI companions combining CV and NLP.

Skills

Diffusion models

Diffusers/Transformers

IP-adapters

Backend engineering

Deployment systems

Tools

Python

Go

C#

Job description

Responsibilities

• Train and fine-tune generative models (text2image, image2image, video2image, IP-adapters) to produce photorealistic and stylized visuals
• Work with image classifiers, rankers, and image/video captioning models that understand visual context
• Track cutting-edge CV research and open-source developments to translate them into a CV roadmap
• Build and own the iterative model improvement process, including quality validation systems
• Optimize inference performance through diffusion optimization, quantization, and kernel-level work
• Optionally train multimodal AI companions combining CV and NLP

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience training diffusion models and modifying architectures
• Proficiency with diffusers and transformers libraries
• Hands-on experience with IP-adapters
• Backend engineering experience in Python, Go, or C# is an advantage
• Knowledge of scalable deployment systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Flow matching training
• Diffusion model distillation
• DPO and other text2image fine-tuning approaches
• Text2video and CLIP fine-tuning
• Experience with multimodal LLMs
• NLP / LLM training and chatbot development background

Benefits

• Remote work opportunity
• 28 calendar days of vacation per year
• 7 wellness days per year
• Up to $5,000 referral bonuses
• 50% payment for professional training and international conferences
• Corporate discount for English lessons
• Health benefits compensation up to $1,000 gross per year
• Workplace reimbursement up to $1,000 gross every 3 years

About the Company

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a group of social discovery companies solving problems of loneliness and isolation by transforming virtual intimacy into the new normal through social entertainment platforms.