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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 87 days Ifm Us's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Ifm Us's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Ifm Us
- high 52 stale, 0 reposted of 52 open
- Hiring momentum
- 53 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-30
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About this role
The Research Scientist for Vision Language Model will work on developing and optimizing large-scale foundation models, particularly focusing on vision-language models. The role involves engaging in cutting-edge AI research, collaborating with a team of researchers and engineers, and tackling significant challenges in AI development. Responsibilities include utilizing strong Python and PyTorch skills for machine learning research, as well as managing multimodal datasets and deep learning architectures.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Ifm Us as an employer.
What you need
- Experience working with large language models and/or vision-language models, including pre-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, or inference.
- Strong Python and PyTorch development skills for large-scale machine learning research.
- Experience with distributed training systems and large-scale model optimization.
- Familiarity with multimodal datasets and data processing pipelines involving images, text, and video.
- Understanding of modern deep learning architectures, including Transformers, attention mechanisms, and multimodal fusion techniques.
- Experience with ML infrastructure, including model evaluation, debugging, optimization, and large-scale experimentation.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience training or fine-tuning large Vision Language Models or multimodal foundation models at scale.
- Experience with distributed learning frameworks and infrastructure such as PyTorch Distributed, Megatron, Triton, or CUDA.
- Research experience in multimodal reasoning, agentic systems, tool use, OCR, grounding, document understanding, or multimodal retrieval.
- Experience with synthetic data generation, multimodal data curation, or automated evaluation frameworks for VLMs.
- Familiarity with efficient training and inference techniques such as FlashAttention, quantization, tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism, or memory optimization.
What you get
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Bonus
- 401K Plan
- Generous paid time off, sick leave and holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
Worth weighing
- Salary range is broad ($150,000 – $450,000/year) and depends on individual qualifications.
- The role involves advanced research and collaboration, which may require strong interpersonal skills.
- No specific technologies or tools are mandated, but familiarity with many advanced techniques is preferred.
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Listed by Ifm Us on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-30. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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