Machine Learning Engineer owning the full ML lifecycle for multimodal video datasets at Sieve. Fine-tune VLMs, build evaluation/QA pipelines with frontier models, design filtering systems over internet-scale data, and ship production improvements for top AI labs. Requires strong Python, PyTorch, and production ML experience.
150k – 350k
On-site5+ YOEML Engineering
About the role
What You'll Do
Own model quality for customer-facing video understanding problems
Fine-tune vision-language and multimodal foundation models for specialized tasks
Build automated evaluation and QA pipelines using frontier models like Gemini, GPT, Claude, and open-source VLMs
Design high-precision filtering, ranking, retrieval, and labeling systems over internet-scale video datasets
Create datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks that continuously improve model quality
Develop production ML pipelines spanning preprocessing, inference, post-processing, and quality validation
Work directly with frontier AI labs to translate ambiguous requirements into scalable ML systems
Ship improvements quickly, measure results, and iterate based on real-world performance
Requirements
Strong Python engineer with experience building production ML systems
Experience training, fine-tuning, or deploying modern deep learning models
Comfortable working with PyTorch and modern foundation models
Excellent intuition for evaluation, dataset quality, precision/recall tradeoffs, and edge cases
Enjoys rapidly prototyping with new AI models and APIs
Comfortable owning projects from customer problem to internal pipelines to deployed solution
Strong communicator who enjoys working directly with customers and cross-functional teams
Excited by video, multimodal AI, and frontier foundation models
Nice-to-Haves
In-person at our SF HQ (all roles require onsite in San Francisco 5 days per week)
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