Machine Learning Research Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. The Machine Learning Research Engineer will bridge applied research and production engineering by designing, evaluating, and deploying advanced machine learning systems. The role includes developing scalable ML pipelines, assessing emerging research, optimizing models, and mentoring engineers on rigorous and responsible ML practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, and evaluate applied AI solutions across natural language, vision, recommendation, and structured data domains
• Translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped ML formulations with clear success metrics and evaluation strategies
• Stay current with the latest research in deep learning, large language models, and adjacent areas, and assess applicability to internal use cases
• Implement rigorous experimentation workflows including baselines, ablations, and statistically sound evaluation methodology
• Build production-quality training and inference pipelines using modern ML frameworks and orchestration tools
• Collaborate with ML platform engineers to ensure efficient use of compute, storage, and accelerator resources
• Optimize models for accuracy, latency, throughput, and cost based on production requirements
• Develop tooling for dataset construction, labeling, validation, and ongoing monitoring of data quality
• Partner with product, design, and domain experts to ensure model behavior aligns with user needs and policy requirements
• Implement safety, fairness, and reliability evaluations and incorporate findings into model selection decisions
• Document research findings, design decisions, and operational characteristics clearly for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Mentor engineers on applied ML methodology, evaluation rigor, and responsible deployment
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing, reading groups, and prototype-to-production playbooks
• Influence the broader AI roadmap based on research insight, capability gaps, and emerging opportunities

Requirements:

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a closely related field; or equivalent applied experience
• Six or more years of combined research and applied ML engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX
• Hands-on experience training, fine-tuning, and evaluating deep learning models at non-trivial scale
• Solid grounding in mathematics, statistics, and the theoretical foundations of modern ML
• Experience taking ML models from research prototype to production with appropriate observability and safeguards
• Familiarity with distributed training, mixed-precision training, and accelerator hardware
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to explain complex methods clearly
• Demonstrated ability to read, evaluate, and adapt techniques from current research literature
• Track record of shipping impactful applied AI projects
• Published research at top-tier AI/ML venues
• Experience with large language model training, fine-tuning, or evaluation
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, or multimodal architectures
• Exposure to responsible AI, model evaluation, and alignment practices
• Experience contributing to open-source ML projects