Senior Research Scientist, Clarifai
Machine Learning
Deep learning AI platform
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Deep learning AI platform
101-200 employees
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower developers everywhere to create, share, and use The World's AI™.
Role
Who you are
- We seek individuals passionate about impactful AI applications, committed to collaboration, and skilled in managing multi-phase projects from initial proof-of-concept through deployment
- 3+ years of hands-on experience developing neural networks, focusing particularly on Computer Vision and/or GenAI
- Expertise in Python, with strong proficiency in libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Jax
- Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields
Desirable
- Experience working with government, defense, or intelligence community R&D projects
- Familiarity with remote sensing data sources, including commercial satellite imagery, UAS video, and NTM
- Experience with LLMs, RAG, PEFT, and multi-modal applications (e.g., Captioning, VQA, cross-modal retrieval)
- Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its use in structured agent communication, task orchestration, and context management across multi-agent systems
- Published research in Computer Vision, NLP, or multi-modal AI
- PhD in Machine Learning or related disciplines
What the job involves
- As a Senior Research Scientist at Clarifai, you'll contribute to applied research initiatives, converting the latest academic insights into production-ready solutions
- You'll collaborate closely with our MLOps, Engineering, Business Development, and Product teams to rapidly prototype and deliver innovative capabilities, particularly within the national security domain. Your deep expertise in Computer Vision, GenAI, and multi-modal AI will drive strategic advancements and customer success
- Continuous learning and active participation in academic and industry forums are core elements of our research environment
- Train, evaluate, and optimize machine learning models for high performance, scalability, and robustness
- Contribute to R&D in object detection and multi-object tracking for remote sensing, including Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and rapidly prototype proof-of-concept systems
- Leverage and build AI data engines—scalable feedback systems that integrate model inference, human-guided labeling, and automated evaluation—to accelerate dataset growth and model refinement
- Design and deliver production-grade, maintainable code while managing multi-phase development aligned to technical and customer objectives
- Collaborate across teams and stakeholders—especially in national security and defense—to ensure effective knowledge transfer and mission-aligned innovation
- Your work as a Senior Research Scientist will significantly influence Clarifai’s capability to deliver innovative AI solutions to the national security and intelligence communities. You will directly contribute to strategic projects that enhance Clarifai’s reputation and position as a market leader in AI-driven geospatial analysis
Our take
Metadata has been used to tag websites for years, ensuring a business’ web presence is optimized for search engines. However, this can only be applied to photographs manually, and the automatization of this process would be highly beneficial.
Clarifai provides web developers with the opportunity for images on their site to be algorithmically recognized, making metadata tagging easy. This has been built in the form of API tools, ranging from tools for beginner web developers to in-depth tools for professional businesses. Ultimately, Clarifai’s goal is to point the tools that companies like Google and Pinterest have, towards developers and other companies like retailers.
Since launching, the company has become a market leader in AI and has continued to develop its product offerings. Moreover, It has a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Army. As part of this, the company is now focused on working on a large-scale electro-optical/infrared data labelling effort.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$1.2m
GRANT
Total funding: $101.2m
Company benefits
- Continuous learning: Once a month Hackdays and a yearly training stipend
- Insurance: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
- 401K contribution: Quarterly contributions with no matching required
- Unlimited paid time off: Stay fresh with unlimited paid vacation
- Work-from-home stipend: Receive a monthly stipend for your home office expenses
- Maternity & Paternity: Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leaves, as well as family medical care leave
- Equity: Equity-based compensation to create long-term alignment
- Cell phone reimbursement: Receive a monthly stipend towards your cell phone bill
Company HQ
Wilmington, DE
Leadership
Matt Zeiler
(Founder & CEO)Attained a PhD in Philosophy and Computer Science at NYU. Matt then went on to be a Software Engineering Intern at Google. Alongside this, he founded Review-Mate in 2006. The company sold review booklets to university students and was in operation until 2013, when he founded Clarifai.
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