Matroid

VLM & VFM Forward Deployed Engineer

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25 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Train, fine-tune, orchestrate, evaluate, and deploy vision-centric and vision-language models across industrial domains.
  • Deploy end-to-end computer vision systems across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.
  • Define benchmarks and improve AI system accuracy, reliability, latency, throughput, and robustness through quantitative and qualitative evaluation.
  • Design and develop industrial-grade imaging systems for consistent, high-quality data collection.
  • Integrate Matroid with manufacturing execution systems, PLCs, SCADA systems, quality management systems, safety alert systems, video management systems, and other customer workflows.
  • Advise customers on technical scoping, model adaptation, deployment architecture, evaluation, integration, and enablement.
  • Lead product training sessions, technical workshops, and deployment playbooks.
  • Relay customer feedback to Matroid teams to support customer-centric product development.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or another technical field.
  • Experience with modern visual recognition models, including object detection, segmentation, tracking, action recognition, anomaly detection, and/or vision-language models.
  • Strong Python coding skills for building reliable systems that interact with models, APIs, databases, customer infrastructure, and production workflows.
  • Experience with machine learning and computer vision frameworks and tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Hugging Face, NumPy, or OpenCV.
  • Ability to rigorously evaluate AI systems, design benchmarks, analyze failure modes, and improve model performance through data, prompts, architecture, or workflow design.
  • Strong oral, written, presentation, collaboration, interpersonal, and technical-to-commercial communication skills.
  • Graduate degree in computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, robotics, or a related field is preferred.
  • Previous forward-deployed engineering, field engineering, professional services, consulting, solutions engineering, or other customer-facing technical experience is preferred.
  • Experience deploying AI systems in industrial, manufacturing, aerospace, logistics, security, or other operational environments is preferred.
  • Experience with spatial-temporal reasoning, open-world visual recognition, 3D visual understanding or reconstruction, agentic workflows, or high-growth technology startups is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and equity.
  • Gym membership reimbursement.
  • Free lunch, healthy drinks, and snacks every day.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% paid premiums.
  • Flexible schedule.
  • Budget for hardware or software that improves effectiveness.
  • Learning resources covering software engineering, computer vision, VLMs, LLMs, and multimodal AI.
  • Work from Matroid's new downtown Palo Alto office, located near Caltrain and Stanford University.

Tech Stack

NumPyOpenCVPythonPyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

Forward Deployed
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About Matroid

11-50 employees
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