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SieveSieveSan Francisco, CA

Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning

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)

Skills

PythonPyTorchDeep LearningMultimodal ModelsVision-Language ModelsFine-TuningModel EvaluationGeminiGptClaudeVlmMl Pipelines

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