# AI Content Engineer

**Company:** [LlamaIndex](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/llamaindex)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** ML Engineering
**Salary:** $140k – $220k/yr
**Skills:** Python, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Transformers, Vision-Language Models, LLMs, RAG, OCR, Benchmarks
**Posted:** 2026-07-30

> Builds benchmarks and runs experiments in document AI, then publishes high-velocity technical content like blogs and analyses to drive developer awareness and adoption. Requires strong Python/ML engineering and rapid technical writing skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain comprehensive benchmarks for document parsing and understanding
- Publish high-quality technical content at a weekly cadence (blog posts, benchmark reports, technical comparisons, tutorials)
- Stay deeply current with the document AI landscape - new models, papers, competitors, techniques
- Run experiments and translate findings into publishable artifacts quickly
- Produce technical analyses that demonstrate our capabilities against alternatives
- Contribute to open-source examples, notebooks, and documentation
- Collaborate with the core ML team to surface improvements and capabilities worth highlighting
- Engage authentically with the developer community through technical content

## Required Qualifications
- Experience in software engineering (ML engineering + research a bonus)
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with production **Python** experience
- Understanding of modern ML techniques, particularly in **computer vision**, **NLP**, or multimodal learning
- Demonstrated ability to write clearly, quickly, and authentically about technical topics
- Bias toward shipping - comfortable publishing at blog pace, not paper pace
- Ability to read, understand, and synthesize research papers rapidly
- Scrappy and self-directed - can identify what's worth writing about and execute end-to-end
- Track record of high-velocity output in fast-paced environments

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with **vision-language models**, **transformer architectures**, or document AI specifically
- Existing portfolio of technical writing (blog posts, tutorials, technical documentation)
- Experience building evaluation frameworks or benchmarks
- Familiarity with **OCR**, layout analysis, table extraction, or document structure understanding
- Active presence in ML/AI technical communities
- Experience with **LLM** applications and **RAG** systems

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