[Remote] AI Research Engineer (Applied AI)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. They are seeking an AI Research Engineer (Applied AI) to bridge cutting-edge applied research and production engineering, designing and shipping advanced machine learning systems that solve high-impact business problems.

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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
• Full-time, direct W2 with Bright Vision Technologies (no C2C, no 1099, no third-party)
• 100% remote position
• H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates

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