Founding ML Researcher

• Shape the company’s ML research direction and translate research into production-ready document AI models
• Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle: research → experimentation → training → evaluation → production deployment
• Work with engineering team to transition research into deployed, scalable systems
• Drive best practices for data, experimentation, evaluation, and model iteration

• Training and deploying state-of-the-art models for parsing and understanding unstructured data
• Experimenting with novel techniques to improve layout models and VLM-based document understanding
• Building data pipelines, evaluating model performance, and integrating models into production systems
• Working directly with the founders to shape the product direction and engineering strategy
• 3+ years experience
• Skills: Torch/PyTorch, Python, CUDA, Computer Vision, Data Analytics

• PhD or equivalent research experience in VLM, Computer Vision or related areas
• Publications in top-tier AI conferences
• Familiarity with model serving, inference optimization, or deployment at scale

0.10% - 1.00% equity