Research Engineer
moondream · San Francisco, CA
Frontier labonsite$180k–$250k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build vision models fast and accurate enough for every video frame in realtime.
- Own models end-to-end from architecture design to shipping to developers.
- Solve hard efficiency problems that scaling up clusters can't fix.
What they offer
- Meaningful equity
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support
Ideal candidate
You thrive owning hard problems end-to-end and would rather ship models thousands use than publish papers. You have strong taste, move fast from idea to working code, and want freedom with responsibility.
Requirements
- Trained models from scratch with opinions on architecture choices
- Able to implement papers into working code quickly
- Comfortable using CUDA or Triton for performance optimization
- Prefers shipping widely deployed models over publishing papers
- Strong taste in choosing what experiments to run next
- remote policy
- In-person only; no remote
- hiring process
- Send resume to hiring@moondream.ai; expect to hear back within a week, follow up if you don't hear back
Lab profile
About moondream
Builds fast, accurate vision AI for realtime understanding of every video frame
What they build
- Realtime vision AI models
- Video inference APIs for developers
Known for
- Accurate yet fast vision models
- Realtime every-frame video processing
- Edge and on-premise deployment
- Highly optimized inference stack
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