Senior Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer, Hugging Face
Computer Vision
+ Equity
Community-driven platform for ML models
Open for applications
Community-driven platform for ML models
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Hugging Face is on a mission to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time.
Role
Who you are
- Deep expertise in computer vision: object detection, segmentation, generative models, or multimodal systems
- Strong open-source presence: You’ve contributed significantly to CV libraries (e.g., OpenCV, Detectron2, MMDetection, or Hugging Face’s own transformers/diffusers), as a Core-Contributor or maintainer
- Scalability mindset: Experience optimizing models for production, deploying at scale, or improving inference efficiency
- Collaboration & mentorship: You enjoy working with cross-functional teams, reviewing PRs, and guiding junior contributors
- Alignment with our mission: You believe in democratizing AI and want to empower millions of builders with state-of-the-art tools
- If you love open-source, are passionate about the new development of Transformers models in computer vision, have experience building, optimizing, and training such models in PyTorch and/or TensorFlow, serving them in production, and want to contribute to one of the fastest-growing ML libraries, then we can't wait to see your application!
- If you're interested in joining us, but don't tick every box above, we still encourage you to apply! We're building a diverse team whose skills, experiences, and backgrounds complement one another. We're happy to consider where you might be able to make the biggest impact
What the job involves
- As an Open-Source ML engineer in Computer Vision, you will work mainly with existing open-source libraries, such as Transformers and Datasets to boost the support for vision or multi-modal models and datasets.
- You will bring your computer vision expertise to provide the best computer-vision tool stack in the machine learning ecosystem and work with us to provide the best, simplest, and most intuitive computer-vision library in the industry
- You'll get to foster one of the most active machine learning communities, helping users contribute to and use the tools that you build. You'll interact with Researchers, ML practitioners, and data scientists on a daily basis through GitHub, our forums, or slack
Our take
Large language models, which recognise and generate text, are already being used to auto-complete sentences, power chatbots, moderate content, summarise news articles, and translate text online. However, many of these advances are happening behind closed doors, stifling innovation and raising ethical concerns.
To combat this, Hugging Face is building the "GitHub of machine learning". It’s a community-driven platform with a ton of repositories, where developers can create, discover and collaborate on ML models, datasets and ML apps. This work led to the creation of BLOOM in 2022, an open-access LLM with similar architecture to OpenAI’s GPT, but that is multilingual by design.
The company also launched the Hugging Chat Assistant, an open-source tool creating personalised chat assistants, in direct competition with OpenAI's paid service ChatGPT Plus. By continually creating value based on a global community, not just for Microsoft or Google, HuggingFace should be able to carve out its own path for success.
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Insights
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2023
$235m
SERIES D
May 2022
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $395.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible Work Environment
- Health Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Equity
- Growth, Training, & Conferences
- Generous Parental Leave
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
Leadership
Clem Delangue
(Co-Founder & CEO)Created Moodstocks, a startup building machine learning for computer vision acquired by Google. Also built Mention where they were head of Product and CMO until the company was acquired by MyNewsDesk.
Julien Chaumond
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former advisor for the Deputy Minister for Digital Affairs in Paris, and Senior engineer for Stupefix app that was acquired by GoPro. Also co-founded and was CTO of Glose.
Thomas Wolf
(Co-Founder & CSO)After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique, they worked on laser-plasma interactions at the BELLA Center of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Also worked as a European Patent Attorney for 5 years.
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