Research Engineer -- Vision and Vision-Language Models
Zyphra · San Francisco
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At a glance
Highlights
- Build next-gen vision models for image understanding and computer use.
- Own models end-to-end from data sourcing to pretraining and evaluation.
- Advance visual agents and multi-turn agentic vision tasks.
What they offer
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA plans
- 401(k) plan
- Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
- In-office snacks and meals provided
- Unlimited PTO and company holidays
Ideal candidate
Fast-learning researcher-engineer with strong taste and execution drive who loves taking ambiguous ideas to experiments and thrives in high-paced collaborative research across the full model stack.
Requirements
- Strong research taste and ability to take ambiguous problems from conception to execution
- Strong implementation and prototyping ability to turn ideas into experiments quickly
- High rate of learning and ability to rapidly become effective in unfamiliar areas
- Strong general machine learning intuition and interest in full model stack
- Ability to work well with others in high-paced research setting
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across research and engineering
- remote policy
- In-person in San Francisco
- visa sponsorship
- Immigration support on a case-by-case basis
Lab profile
About Zyphra
San Francisco AI lab building open language and audio models and autonomous desktop agents.
What they build
- Desktop and browser-based autonomous agents
- Open language models
- Open-source audio models (ASR, TTS, speech-to-speech)
Known for
- Agentic systems and human-AI interaction
- Reinforcement learning, post-training and preference learning
- Large-scale language model pre-training
- Novel model architectures and training methods
Key facts
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
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