Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision AI
Toast, Inc.Base Salary
$151k - $309k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build ML systems and select and integrate vision and vision-language models for production use.
- Develop inference pipelines, model evaluation systems, and monitoring for production model performance.
- Own major system components end to end, including video-processing services and customer-facing Vision AI features.
- Contribute to architecture, technical design, integrations, and cross-team dependency management.
- Use AI coding tools and agent harnesses to design, build, test, and ship software.
- Maintain high standards for quality, testing, reliability, security, and privacy.
- Support the growth of other engineers through code reviews and collaboration.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping models in production.
- Mastery of a modern backend language such as Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Scala.
- Experience integrating AI or machine learning models, including LLM or vision-language model APIs, into production features.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, query languages, and online/offline data patterns for ML systems.
- Deep proficiency with distributed-systems concepts including consistency, latency, throughput, fault tolerance, and observability.
- Experience taking ambiguous ideas from prototype to production with real customers.
- Daily experience using AI coding assistants and agent harnesses, such as Claude Code or Cursor.
- Ability to collaborate with product, design, and engineering partners and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with in-person collaboration and region-specific in-office expectations.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package, including equity and cash compensation where eligible.
- AI tools are provided across disciplines to support productivity and learning.
About Toast, Inc.
Bottom Line – Solving business problems and generating positive growth is our jam! We are focused on helping purpose-driven brands make a positive impact with predictable Inbound Growth Programs. As a small business, we get it. Growing pains are genuine for many companies in today’s evolving digital landscape. Standing apart from your competition, connecting with your customers, predictably hitting your goals, and scaling are becoming more challenging as local and global markets expand. But it's not impossible. Digging into the unique challenges your business encounters, we analyze every detail and identify opportunities to grow. Our conversational framework is based on data, mixed with beautiful design, story-telling, and smothered in personality to craft marketing and sales strategies that make it all happen. Do you want to transform your company into a crave-worthy brand that new and existing customers will love and promote? Let's Get Cookin'!