# Member of Technical Staff, Deployed Research

**Company:** [Sieve](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sieve)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $150k – $350k/yr
**Skills:** Python, PyTorch, Computer Vision, Data Pipelines, Machine Learning, Video Processing, Audio Processing, Multimodal Data, Inference Optimization, Fine-Tuning
**Posted:** 2026-05-14

> Deployed Research Engineer works directly with AI labs to build custom algorithms, models, and pipelines for high-quality video datasets at scale. Requires strong Python/PyTorch skills, customer collaboration, and end-to-end delivery from prototypes to production.

## Job Description

## Requirements
- Comfortable working directly with customers or external teams to translate ambiguous needs into concrete technical systems
- Strong Python developer with hands-on experience in **PyTorch** or similar ML frameworks
- Experience building custom algorithms, model workflows, or large-scale data pipelines
- Strong intuition for dataset quality, filtering, labeling, evaluation, and edge cases
- Able to break customer-level goals down into the models, heuristics, infrastructure, and QA steps needed to deliver
- Writes clean, maintainable code and can move quickly without creating brittle systems
- Deep passion for video, media technologies, and frontier AI applications
- Motivated by delivering end-to-end outcomes, not just training models or writing research code

## Bonus
- Experience with large-scale video, audio, or multimodal data processing
- Active contributor to open source projects
- Experience as an early hire at a startup

## Benefits
- 401k + Full Health Insurance
- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
- Ubers covered home

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