Founding ML Researcher
unsiloed.ai•San Francisco, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
We are hiring a Founding ML Researcher in San Francisco. We are building a small, talent-dense team. This role will define the engineering archetype at Unsiloed AI and set the ceiling for the team. We strongly believe technical DNA compounds (or degrades) with every hire and hence the first few matter disproportionately. You will be expected to operate proactively, take full ownership, and independently drive systems from idea to production.
Requirements
- Comfortable moving between theory, experimentation, and real-world deployment.
- Experience with training and deploying state-of-the-art models for parsing and understanding unstructured data
- Experience experimenting with novel techniques to improve layout models and VLM-based document understanding
- Experience building data pipelines, evaluating model performance, and integrating models into production systems
- Experience working directly with the founders to shape the product direction and engineering strategy
Nice To Haves
- PhD or equivalent research experience in VLM, Computer Vision or related areas.
- Publications in top-tier AI conferences
- Familiarity with model serving, inference optimization, or deployment at scale
Responsibilities
- Shape the company’s ML research direction and translate research into production-ready document AI models.
- Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle: research → experimentation → training → evaluation → production deployment
- Work with engineering team to transition research into deployed, scalable systems
- Drive best practices for data, experimentation, evaluation, and model iteration.
Benefits
- Equity: 0.1% – 1%
- Open to sponsoring visas
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
