AI Engineer

Job Title: AI Engineer

Location: Hybrid

Duration: 8 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $83/hr

Job Type: W-2 Contract

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization:

USC

GC

H1B

OPT-EAD

Job Description:

This role sits at the intersection of frontier AI research and production engineering, focusing on training, fine-tuning and deploying large-scale Vision-Language Models capable of understanding motion and real-world environments from video data. You'll work directly with a highly technical founding team, helping shape both the research roadmap and the core machine learning platform from an early stage.

Responsibilities:

• Train, fine-tune and evaluate large-scale Vision-Language Models and multimodal foundation models.
• Design and optimize GPU-accelerated training, inference and evaluation pipelines.
• Develop multimodal architectures capable of reasoning over video, language and sensor data.
• Build evaluation frameworks for benchmarking model performance across complex reasoning tasks.
• Develop scalable data curation pipelines that improve model quality through automated dataset generation.
• Collaborate closely with leadership to take research ideas from experimentation into production.
• Contribute to cutting-edge research while building production-ready AI systems.

Required Experience:

• Strong Python and PyTorch development experience.
• Experience training or fine-tuning foundation models, Vision-Language Models or other multimodal AI systems.
• Strong understanding of modern deep learning workflows and large-scale experimentation.
• Experience working with video, image or sensor-based machine learning datasets.
• Knowledge of embeddings, retrieval systems and GPU optimization techniques.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced startup environment.

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.