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Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer; Multi-Modal - Vision
Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer; Multi-Modal - VisionLiquid AI, Inc • San Francisco, CA, United States
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Member of Technical Staff - ML Research Engineer; Multi-Modal - Vision

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

Liquid AI, Inc • San Francisco, CA, United States
21 days 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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