Senior Machine Learning Engineer

clearview; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearview AI is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to push the limits of computer vision and ML capabilities. This highly technical, individual-contributor role focuses on building and shipping models from prototype to production, applying large-scale visual understanding and multimodal approaches.

The role emphasizes developing and benchmarking high‑performance image representations, data pipelines, and robust inference infrastructure to accelerate real‑world impact across our products.

Responsibilities

• Build, train, evaluate, and deploy computer vision and multimodal models, taking them from early prototype through to production
• Design systems that infer structured attributes and spatial context from imagery, combining learned models with geometric and heuristic reasoning
• Train and fine‑tune models on large, diverse real‑world image datasets, and build the pipelines to curate and label that data at scale
• Work with vision‑language models (VLMs) and build rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure their accuracy on our tasks
• Develop and benchmark high‑performance image retrieval capabilities with embedding models and vector indexing strategies
• Optimize models for inference latency and throughput using techniques like distillation, quantization, and GPU acceleration
• Read current research, prototype novel algorithms from academic literature, and turn promising ideas into reliable production code
• Implement efficient, scalable data pipelines and inference infrastructure
• Develop high‑performance tooling in ML and data engineering
• Additional duties and responsibilities as reasonably required by the employee’s supervisor or CEO

Job description

Clearview AI is the leading provider of facial recognition technologies to US law enforcement, state, and federal agencies. Our mission is to help our users solve crimes and prevent financial fraud with the responsible use of our facial recognition software. Our company is a high-octane, fast growing startup looking to hire enthusiastic and intelligent team members to join our team. To learn more about us, and our revolutionary facial recognition technology, please visit www.clearview.ai.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Position Summary

We are hiring a highly technical individual contributor to push the limits of our computer vision and machine learning capabilities. This is a high-impact, hands‑on role for a research-minded engineer who wants to build and ship models, not manage a team. Much of the work involves large-scale visual understanding, extracting structured signals from imagery and reasoning about the real‑world context behind a photograph, but we care more about deep ML/CV ability than any one problem area and welcome strong generalists.

Responsibilities

• Build, train, evaluate, and deploy computer vision and multimodal models, taking them from early prototype through to production
• Design systems that infer structured attributes and spatial context from imagery, combining learned models with geometric and heuristic reasoning
• Train and fine‑tune models on large, diverse real‑world image datasets, and build the pipelines to curate and label that data at scale
• Work with vision‑language models (VLMs) and build rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure their accuracy on our tasks
• Develop and benchmark high‑performance image retrieval capabilities with embedding models and vector indexing strategies
• Optimize models for inference latency and throughput using techniques like distillation, quantization, and GPU acceleration
• Read current research, prototype novel algorithms from academic literature, and turn promising ideas into reliable production code
• Implement efficient, scalable data pipelines and inference infrastructure
• Develop high‑performance tooling in ML and data engineering
• Additional duties and responsibilities as reasonably required by the employee’s supervisor or CEO