Senior Multimodal ML Research Engineer

Origin Lab; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Origin Lab is seeking a senior, hands-on research hybrid role combining ML engineering and scientific inquiry. You will work with a multimodal data corpus, test models across architectures, reproduce findings, and publish the strongest results with well-maintained checkpoints and evaluation harnesses.

You will liaise with academic labs and private model makers to run studies our data enables, and guide cross-functional teams from dataset design to strategic outcomes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience training, testing, and using video and multimodal models.
• Generalist across ML engineering, research science, and data science.
• Rigorous experimental design with preregistered endpoints and kill criteria.
• Fluency with open-weights ecosystem and Hugging Face tooling.

Responsibilities

• Choose what experiments, what models, and what data to run.
• Demonstrate knowledge across many models and quantify data performance.
• Reproduce published results on our data and publish the strongest findings with clean checkpoints and released evaluation harnesses.
• Own and liaise with research partnerships with academic labs and private model makers.
• Work cross-functionally: translate business needs into datasets and strategy.
• Publish: design short and long-term publication strategies.

Skills

Video and multimodal models

ML engineering

Data wrangling

Experiment design

Open-weights ecosystem

PyTorch

Distributed training

Reproducibility

Tools

Hugging Face

safetensors

Experiment tracking

Open model landscape

Job description

Origin Lab is seeking a senior, hands-on research hybrid role combining ML engineering and scientific inquiry. You will work with a multimodal data corpus, test models across architectures, reproduce findings, and publish the strongest results with well-maintained checkpoints and evaluation harnesses.

You will liaise with academic labs and private model makers to run studies our data enables, and guide cross-functional teams from dataset design to strategic outcomes.