Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer; Multi-Modal - Vision

Liquid AI, IncSan Francisco, CA, United States

10 hours ago

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Work With Us

At Liquid, we're not just building AI models-we're redefining the architecture of intelligence itself. Spun out of MIT, our mission is to build efficient AI systems at every scale. Our Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs) operate where others can't : on-device, at the edge, under real-time constraints. We're not iterating on old ideas-we're architecting what comes next.

We believe great talent powers great technology. The Liquid team is a community of world-class engineers, researchers, and builders creating the next generation of AI. Whether you're helping shape model architectures, scaling our dev platforms, or enabling enterprise deployments-your work will directly shape the frontier of intelligent systems.

This Role Is For You If :

You have experience with machine learning at scale
You're proficient in PyTorch, and familiar with distributed training frameworks like DeepSpeed, FSDP, or Megatron-LM
You've worked with multimodal data (e.g., image-text, video, visual documents, audio)
You've contributed to research papers, open-source projects, or production-grade multimodal model systems
You understand how data quality, augmentations, and preprocessing pipelines can significantly impact model performance-and you've built tooling to support that
You enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams across research, systems, and infrastructure, and can translate ideas into high-impact implementations

Desired Experience :

You've designed and trained Vision Language Models

You care deeply about empirical performance, and know how to design, run, and debug large-scale training experiments on distributed GPU clusters

You've developed vision encoders or integrated them into language pretraining pipelines with autoregressive or generative objectives

You have experience working with large-scale video or document datasets, understand the unique challenges they pose, and can manage massive datasets effectively

You've built tools for data deduplication, image-text alignment, or vision tokenizer development

What You'll Actually Do :

Investigate and prototype new model architectures that optimize inference speed, including on edge devices

Lead or contribute to ablation studies and benchmark evaluations that inform architecture and data decisions

Build and maintain evaluation suites for multimodal performance across a range of public and internal tasks

Collaborate with the data and infrastructure teams to build scalable pipelines for ingesting and preprocessing large vision-language datasets

Work with the infrastructure team to optimize model training across large-scale GPU clusters

Contribute to publications, internal research documents, and thought leadership within the team and the broader ML community

Collaborate with the applied research and business teams on client-specific use cases

What You'll Gain :

A front-row seat in building some of the most capable Vision Language Models

Access to world-class infrastructure, a fast-moving research team, and deep collaboration across ML, systems, and product

The opportunity to shape multimodal foundation model research with both scientific rigor and real-world impact

About Liquid AI

Spun out of MIT CSAIL, we're a foundation model company headquartered in Boston. Our mission is to build capable and efficient general-purpose AI systems at every scale-from phones and vehicles to enterprise servers and embedded chips. Our models are designed to run where others stall : on CPUs, with low latency, minimal memory, and maximum reliability. We're already partnering with global enterprises across consumer electronics, automotive, life sciences, and financial services. And we're just getting started.

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Member Of Technical Staff • San Francisco, CA, United States