Webflow

Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets

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6 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$205k - $290k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead research initiatives in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation.
  • Develop models, algorithms, and training methodologies for image understanding, video understanding, visual search, scene representation, segmentation, detection, generation, and multimodal reasoning.
  • Design, implement, train, and optimize large-scale vision and multimodal foundation models across diverse datasets and tasks.
  • Translate research into practical model improvements, production-ready systems, and new product experiences.
  • Partner with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to move research from exploration to production.
  • Set technical direction for high-impact vision and multimodal AI research areas and influence longer-term strategy.
  • Mentor scientists and engineers and contribute to a strong scientific culture.
  • Monitor emerging research in computer vision, multimodal learning, generative modeling, and foundation models and apply relevant techniques.

Requirements

  • BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of relevant industry and/or research experience, or equivalent impact.
  • Deep theoretical and practical expertise in computer vision, including representation learning, visual recognition, image or video generation, and multimodal learning.
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field is preferred; PhD is strongly preferred.
  • Experience with transformers, diffusion models, contrastive learning approaches, and foundation models.
  • Ability to formulate research problems, design rigorous experiments, and translate findings into model or product advances.
  • Strong coding and prototyping skills in Python.
  • Proficiency with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Technical leadership experience, including mentoring scientists or engineers and influencing research direction.
  • Strong communication skills for technical and cross-functional audiences.

Benefits

  • Remote-first position in the United States and British Columbia/Ontario, Canada.
  • Full-time, permanent, exempt employment.
  • Equity in the form of RSUs for permanent employees.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage with most premiums covered for employees and dependents.
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and at least 6 additional weeks for birthing parents.
  • Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
  • Mental health resources, therapy, and coaching.
  • 401(k) with a 100% employer match up to $6,000 per year in the United States, plus global retirement savings support.
  • Monthly stipends for work and wellness expenses.
  • Eligibility for the annual WIN bonus program for full-time, permanent, non-commission employees.

Tech Stack

PythonPyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
Webflow

About Webflow

1,001-5,000 employees

Webflow provides a visual web development platform for designers and marketing teams to build responsive websites without code, with an integrated CMS, secure hosting, and e‑commerce features. It sells subscription plans for individuals, teams, and enterprises, and supports workflows from design and content editing to publishing, with templates and integrations. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.

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