ML Researcher(DeepMind, OpenAI) with Early Stage/ Startup/Founder Exp

Job Description

Job Description

Salary - $200,000 - $300,000

What you Will Do

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.

What We are Looking For

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

Bonus if you have

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