Founding AI/ML Engineer

Join us as we build VLM Run – the enterprise infrastructure layer for visual intelligence . Our mission is to give developers a unified way to fine-tune, specialize, and run Vision-Language Models (VLMs) that turn images, PDFs, screenshots, and video into reliable, schema-true structured data for production insights and automation – built for scale, security, and SLAs. We’re looking for exceptional engineers to help us build and scale the infrastructure layer for visual intelligence . You’ll do well here if you bring strong technical craft, high ownership, and strength in one or more of these areas: Platform & Infra: Own and optimize the VLM inference stack (see Orion ) end-to-end – from GPU serving and latency/cost to scalable backend systems and reliability. Developer Experience: Design clean, ergonomic APIs for multimodal apps – tool/function calling, structured outputs, and workflows developers actually want to build. High Agency + Velocity: We move fast on hard problems. You’ll take ideas from 0→1, set the bar for quality, and help define what “production-grade visual intelligence” looks like. 🎓 Required Expertise (BS & 4+ YoE) LLM Experience : Integrated or built applications with LLMs (OpenAI, HuggingFace, Ollama, vLLM), with an understanding of prompt engineering, function calling, and structured outputs. Backend Engineering : Python, FastAPI, async API design, schema validation, caching, and performance optimization. Infra & DevOps : Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability (logging, metrics, tracing), GCP or AWS. Datastores & Systems : Postgres, MongoDB, Redis; experience with scalable, reliable data pipelines. Developer Experience : Strong testing discipline (TDD), clean code, GitHub workflows (PRs, reviews, CI), and internal tooling mindset. [BONUS] SaaS Experience : Shipped full-stack dev platforms or SaaS products – from landing pages to auth, billing, telemetry, and infra. Email us with a one-liner if you've done this. 🗒️ Other Details Pay + Equity Range: $150K-$220K / yr, 0.5-3% equity Competitive compensation and benefits: We pay market rate for seed-stage startups + equity options, offer great healthcare and 401K. In-person: At least 4 days a week in Santa Clara, CA (we’re right by 101, next to AMD’s HQ offices).