Member of Technical Staff, Machine Learning NomadicML

About NomadicML

Americans drive over 5 trillion miles a year more than 500 billion of them recorded. Buried in that footage is the next frontier of machine intelligence. At NomadicML were building the platform that unlocks it.

Our Vision-Language Models (VLMs) act as the new hydraulic mining for video transforming raw footage into structured intelligence that powers real-world autonomy and robotics. We partner with industry leaders across self-driving robotics and industrial automation to mine insights from petabytes of data that were once unusable.

NomadicML was founded by Mustafa Bal and Varun Krishnan who met at Harvard University while studying Computer Science.

• Mustafa is a core contributor to ONNX Runtime and DeepSpeed with deep expertise in distributed systems and large-scale model training infrastructure

• Varun is an INFORMS Wagner Prize Finalist for his research in large-scale driver navigation AI models and one of the top chess players in the US.

Our team has built mission-critical AI systems at Snowflake Lyft Microsoft Amazon and IBM Research holds top-tier publications in VLMS and AI at conferences like CVPR and moves with the speed and clarity of a startup obsessed with impact.

About the Role

Were seeking a Machine Learning Engineer who thrives at the frontier of foundation-model research and production engineering.
Youll help define how machines learn from motion: training and fine-tuning large-scale Vision-Language Models to reason about complex real-world video.

Your work will involve building multi-modal architectures that perceive localize and describe motion events (turns lane changes interactions anomalies) across millions of frames and turning those breakthroughs into robust APIs and SDKs used by enterprise customers.

Youll work directly with the founders to:

• Train and evaluate VLMs specialized for motion understanding in autonomous-driving and robotics datasets.

• Design and scale GPU-accelerated pipelines for training fine-tuning and inference on multi-modal data (video language sensor metadata).

• Build agentic evaluation frameworks that benchmark spatiotemporal reasoning localization accuracy and narrative consistency.

• Develop and productionize curation loops that use our own models to generate and refine datasets (AI training AI).

• Publish high-impact research (e.g. NeurIPS CVPR) while shipping features that customers use immediately.
  

Youll Excel If You Have

• Strong proficiency in Python PyTorch and large-scale ML workflows.

• Research experience in foundation models VLMs or multi-modal learning (publications/patents a plus).

• Ability to iterate quickly and autonomously running experiments end-to-end.

• Experience training or fine-tuning models on video or sensor data.

• Understanding of retrieval systems embeddings and GPU optimization.

Nice to Have

• Contributions to open-source ML frameworks (e.g. DeepSpeed Hugging Face).

• Experience with vector databases distributed training or ML orchestration systems (e.g. Ray Kubeflow MLflow).

• Prior exposure to autonomous-driving or robotics datasets.