# Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets
**Company:** [Webflow](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/webflow)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $194K-$285K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Computer Vision, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Python, Transformers, Diffusion Models, Multimodal Learning, Foundation Models, Contrastive Learning, Representation Learning
**Posted:** 2026-04-14
> Leads research in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation. Develops novel models and methodologies, translates research to production, and mentors teams. Requires PhD preferred, 8+ years experience, and expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, transformers.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities

- 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.

## Requirements

- 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.

## Compensation

**United States (USD):**
- Zone A: 220,000 - 285,000
- Zone B: 207,000 - 268,000
- Zone C: 194,000 - 251,000
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