ML Researcher; DeepMind, OpenAI Early Stage​/Startup​/Founder Exp

Founding ML Researcher

Salary: $200,000 - $300,000

As a Founding ML Researcher, you will 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.

This role is research-heavy but product-oriented. You should be comfortable moving between theory, experimentation, and real-world deployment. You should have experience with most of the following:
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.

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.