Vision & Multimodal AI Research Engineer

Zyphra; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans

Competitive compensation and 401(k)

Relocation and immigration support

In-office snacks and meals

Unlimited PTO and company holidays

In-person team in San Francisco

Job summary

Zyphra in San Francisco is seeking a Research Engineer - Vision & Vision-Language Models to help build next-gen multimodal agents. You will contribute across data sourcing, pretraining, evaluation, and reinforcement learning within the Vision Team.

The role emphasizes rapid experimentation, strong research taste, and collaboration with engineering to deploy scalable models. Prior experience is valued but not strictly required; we value capability and trajectory above credentials.

Qualifications

• Experience researching and prototyping vision-language models.
• Ability to translate ideas into experiments quickly.
• Ability to work in fast-paced research setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end vision-language model pretraining and evaluation.
• Source, generate, and curate multimodal datasets.
• Collaborate across research and engineering to optimize training stacks.

Skills

Vision-language models

Research experimentation

Python

PyTorch

Large-scale training

Education

Postgraduate study in CS/related field

Tools

Git

TensorBoard

Job description

Zyphra in San Francisco is seeking a Research Engineer - Vision & Vision-Language Models to help build next-gen multimodal agents. You will contribute across data sourcing, pretraining, evaluation, and reinforcement learning within the Vision Team.

The role emphasizes rapid experimentation, strong research taste, and collaboration with engineering to deploy scalable models. Prior experience is valued but not strictly required; we value capability and trajectory above credentials.