Staff Machine Learning Engineer

As a Staff Machine Learning Scientist you will lead the advancement of our core embedding-based retrieval systems, with a primary focus on the scientific aspects of modeling

This includes fine-tuning and extending multimodal models (e.g., CLIP, Sig

LIP) to improve performance, generalization, and cross-modal alignment

You’ll work on unifying text and image representations, improving model performance, and ensuring extensibility across evolving product use cases

Your work will be central to Flock’s ability to deliver fast, accurate, and scalable search experiences powered by state-of-the-art vision-language systems The First 30 Days

Meet the team & cross-functional stakeholders

Understand the system architecture for freeform search and the ownership of the various components

One major cultural component within Flock’s engineering teams is the “first day push”. The first day push focuses setup and onboarding to the things that matter to deliver value The First 60 Days

Gain familiarity and performing R&D

Begin to automate the systems for training, evaluation, testing, and model release

90 Days & Beyond

Own long-term maintenance

Become a leader for the team offering hand-ons help

Begin exploratory work

Benefits

Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!

Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers

⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match

Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies

L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so mu