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Research Engineer, Vision

United States, Palo Alto · Job Posted January 13, 2026
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You will be a core contributor on Zyphra’s Vision Team building the next generation of vision-language models which can understand natural scenes with a focus on web, desktop, and mobile UIs. You will be deeply involved in the entire model training process from data gathering and processing to designing novel architectures and training methodologies.

Job Responsibility

  • Building the next generation of vision-language models which can understand natural scenes with a focus on web, desktop, and mobile UIs
  • Deeply involved in the entire model training process from data gathering and processing to designing novel architectures and training methodologies
  • Work across: Large-scale vision encoder and vision language training runs
  • Performance optimization of our training stack
  • Image and video dataset collection, processing, and evaluation
  • Architecture and training methodology ablations and improvements

Requirements

  • Strong research taste and intuition
  • Strong implementation and prototyping ability
  • The ability to work well and cooperate with others in a high-paced research setting
  • Willing to be in-person in our office in Palo Alto
  • US authorization to work

Nice to have

  • Experience with training and evaluating vision language models
  • Experience with creating and collecting large scale machine learning datasets, especially in the visual modality
  • Experience with training vision encoders using contrastive learning or other methods
  • Experience with supervised finetuning and preference learning methods as well as reinforcement learning methods
  • A good intuitive ability to understand model behaviours and correct them through iterative finetuning
  • Interest in grappling in detail with data and spending significant time involved in data engineering and synthetic data generation
  • Postgraduate degree in scientific subject (Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning, etc)
  • Previously published machine learning research in well-respected venues
  • Highly proficient with Pytorch and Python
  • Are excited and able to rapidly learn new fields and implement new ideas
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills and can work effectively on both research and engineering implementation at scale

What we offer

  • Medical, dental, vision and FSA plans
  • Competitive salary, equity and 401(k)
  • Relocation and immigration support on a case-by-case basis
  • On-site meals prepared by a dedicated culinary team
  • Thursday Happy Hours
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