Founding ML Researcher

Location: San Francisco, CA

Work Type: In-person

Employment: Full-time

Experience: Any (new PhD grads ok)

Salary Range: $200000 - $300000 / per year

Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT

Unsiloed converts complex documents into LLM-ready data. Our production-grade APIs ingest, parse, structure, and split documents across formats like PDF, PPT and Excel into clean Markdown and JSON that AI agents and LLMs can reliably work with from day one. It preserves document structure and hierarchy while capturing domain-specific context critical for high-stakes workflows across verticals like Finance, Legal and Healthcare.

Job Description :

We are hiring a Founding ML Researcher in San Francisco. We are building a small, talent-dense team. This role will define the engineering archetype at Unsiloed AI and set the ceiling for the team. We strongly believe technical DNA compounds (or degrades) with every hire, and hence the first few matter disproportionately. You will be expected to operate proactively, take full ownership, and independently drive systems from idea to production.

What you Will Do:

As a Founding ML Researcher, you will shape the company’s ML research direction and translate research into production-ready document AI models. Own the end-to-end ML lifecycle: research experimentation training evaluation production deployment Work with engineering team to transition research into deployed, scalable systems Drive best practices for data, experimentation, evaluation, and model iteration.

What We are Looking For:

This role is research-heavy but product-oriented. You should be comfortable moving between theory, experimentation, and real-world deployment. You should have experience with most of the following: Training and deploying state-of-the-art models for parsing and understanding unstructured data Experimenting with novel techniques to improve layout models and VLM-based document understanding Building data pipelines, evaluating model performance, and integrating models into production systems Working directly with the founders to shape the product direction and engineering strategy Bonus if you have PhD or equivalent research experience in VLM, Computer Vision or related areas. Publications in top-tier AI conferences Familiarity with model serving, inference optimization, or deployment at scale.

Requirements :

• Training and deploying state-of-the-art models for parsing and understanding unstructured data
• Experimenting with novel techniques to improve layout models and VLM-based document understanding
• Building data pipelines, evaluating model performance, and integrating models into production systems

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive compensation + equity
• Full health insurance coverage
• Free DoorDash/Uber credits
• Free company laptop

Interview Process

1. Initial chat with cofounder Aman

2. Technical Coding Round

3. 1-week work trial (flexible scheduling)

4. Offer Extended

5. Hired