Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research

remote$180K$250K

via Ashby

About this role

Join us and help shape the future of AI by defining the narrative around document understanding. ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for an AI Research Engineer to join our document understanding team. This role is ideal for someone who sits between applied research and strong engineering. You will work on vision-language models, document processing, data curation, synthetic data generation, benchmarking, training, fine-tuning, and post-training. The goal is simple: make our document AI systems more accurate, faster, and more cost-effective in production. You should be excited by frontier AI work, but equally motivated by practical product impact. This is not a pure research role where ideas stay in papers.…

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