Thinking Machines Lab
Research, Vision Expertise
$350K–$475K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline. Preferred: PhD in one of these fields or equivalent industry research experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is offered; success is not guaranteed for every candidate or role.
About the job
Conduct research and engineering on multimodal AI, advancing visual perception through model training, datasets, evaluation, and multimodal systems.
What you'll do
- Lead research projects on training and performance analysis of multimodal AI models.
- Build large-scale datasets and evaluation benchmarks for vision capabilities.
- Collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams; publish and present research and share code, datasets, and insights.
What they ask for
- Design, run, and analyze experiments with research judgment and empirical rigor.
- Understand machine learning fundamentals, large-scale training, and distributed compute environments.
- Proficient in Python and familiar with at least one deep learning framework; able to debug distributed training and write scalable code.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding; communicate complex technical concepts clearly in writing.
Nice to have
- Research or engineering contributions in visual reasoning, spatial understanding, or multimodal architecture; experience developing multimodal evaluation frameworks.
- Publications or open-source contributions in vision-language modeling, video understanding, or multimodal AI; PhD or equivalent industry research experience.
Pay
$350,000- $475,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX
AI focus
Research and develop multimodal AI for visual perception, vision-language interaction, multimodal reasoning, and real-world comprehension; includes model architectures, large-scale training, datasets, and evaluation.
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