Member of Technical Staff — Multimodal Understanding

Job overview

The Member of Technical Staff — Multimodal Understanding role is onsite in Palo Alto, CA; compensation is $180,000–$440,000 per year. SpaceXAI’s mission is to create AI systems that understand the universe and aid humanity’s pursuit of knowledge. The role advances multimodal model capabilities across image, video, audio, and text, spanning data, training, infrastructure, evaluation, and product experiences. It contributes to systems that can reason about and interact with the world in real time.

What you'll do

• Design and optimize distributed multimodal systems
• develop data pipelines
• advance multimodal capabilities
• drive data quality studies
• create evaluation frameworks and metrics
• innovate on algorithms and scaling
• build research tools, interfaces, prototypes, and applications
• work across pre-training and post-training.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

member of technical staff

multimodal understanding

multimodal ai

machine learning

distributed systems

python

palo alto ca

spacexai

$180k–$440k annually

image video audio text

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity
• medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k)
• short- and long-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• discounts and other perks.

Why this role

The role spans the full stack from data curation and model training to evaluation, tooling, demos, and end-to-end product experiences.

About the employer

SpaceXAI is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.