Webflow
Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
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Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
CanadaUSA
Role overview
Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Assets
Requirements and responsibilities
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About the role:
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Exempt
- Our cash compensation amount for this role ranges depending on the cost of labor of the geographic area. The ranges shared below may change if you are hired in another geographic location.
About the role:
- United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States) Zone A: 232,000 - 290,000 Zone B: 217,600 - 272,000 Zone C: 204,800 - 256,000
- Zone A: 232,000 - 290,000
- Zone B: 217,600 - 272,000
- Zone C: 204,800 - 256,000
- Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada) 253,000 - 316,000
- 253,000 - 316,000
Details
- Zone A: 232,000 - 290,000
- Zone B: 217,600 - 272,000
- Zone C: 204,800 - 256,000
- 253,000 - 316,000
- Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled
- This posting is for a new position
About the role:
- Application Information: Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled This posting is for a new position
- Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled
- This posting is for a new position
- Reporting to the Director, Engineering
About the role:
- 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.
About you:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
About you:
- 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.
- Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact.
Our Core Behaviors:
- Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first.
- Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act.
- Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible.
- Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar.
Benefits
- Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
- Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
- Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
- Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
- Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
- Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
- Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
- Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.
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