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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Machine Learning Scientist - **Company:** Webflow, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $194,000.0 - $285,000.0 - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Deep Learning, Information Technology, Webflow - **Published:** August 20, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/auth/login?destination=/job/senior-staff-machine-learning-scientist-assets/9043793 ## About the Role * BA/BS degree or equivalent experience, * Deep theoretical and practical expertise in computer vision, with strong foundations in areas such as representation learning, visual recognition, image or video generation, multimodal learning, and large-scale model training. * Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field; PhD strongly preferred. * 8+ years of relevant industry and/or research experience, or equivalent impact, including a track record of driving major research initiatives in computer vision or multimodal machine learning. * Strong experience with state-of-the-art vision and multimodal model architectures, including transformers, diffusion models, contrastive learning approaches, and foundation models. * Proven ability to formulate research problems clearly, design rigorous experiments, and translate findings into meaningful model or product advances. * Strong coding and prototyping skills in Python, with the ability to write clean, scalable, and well-documented research code. * Proficiency in modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. * Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring scientists or engineers and influencing research direction across a team or organization. * Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex research clearly to both technical and cross-functional audiences. * Stay curious and open to growth - demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact. ## Description + Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled + This posting is for a new position * Reporting to the Director, Engineering As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, you'll: * Lead and drive ambitious research initiatives that advance the state of the art in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation. * Develop novel models, algorithms, and training methodologies for challenging vision problems such as image understanding, video understanding, visual search, scene representation, segmentation, detection, generation, and multimodal reasoning. * Translate cutting-edge research into practical model improvements that can shape product direction and unlock new user experiences. * Design, implement, train, and optimize large-scale vision and multimodal foundation models across diverse datasets and tasks. * Partner closely with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to move research from exploration to production-ready systems. * Set technical direction for high-impact research areas, identifying promising bets and influencing longer-term strategy for vision and multimodal AI. * Mentor other scientists and engineers, raise the quality bar for research, and help build a strong scientific culture across the team. * Stay at the forefront of research in computer vision, multimodal learning, generative modeling, and foundation models, and apply emerging techniques to real-world problems. ## Related Videos - [Machine learning in the browser with TensorFlowjs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/155-machine-learning-in-the-browser-with-tensorflowjs) - [Coffee with Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/354-coffee-with-developers) - [Photonic Computing: Programming a New Class of AI Accelerators (incl. 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