$200,000–$260,000
VLM & VFM Forward Deployed Engineer
First seen · open on Breezy as of
$150,000–$300,000Palo Alto, CAOn-siteFull-time
This forward-deployed engineering role builds and deploys vision-centric and vision-language AI systems for industrial customers across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.
Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so.
Ask your AI about this job
At a glance
Posted base pay
$150K–$300KAbove the median
Midpoint $225K · median $190K
Median $190K
This job$150K–$300KSenior FDE postings1,849 postings · middle 50% of posted pay$160K–$220KThe work
Builds what the customer runs
Balance Mostly building
Project stages
- Pre-sales
- Proof of concept (not covered)
- Implementation
- Operations (not covered)
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- External customers
- Level
- Senior
- Role
- Individual contributor
Do you meet what the posting states?
The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?
The job is in Palo Alto, CA. Could you work there?
Which of these have you used in production?
Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent.
More like this
$182,000–$250,208
$184,000–$287,500
What you’ll do
- Train and deploy vision-centric and vision-language models across industrial domains and cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.
- Define benchmarks, evaluate production AI systems, analyze failure modes, and improve accuracy, reliability, latency, throughput, and robustness.
- Design industrial-grade imaging systems for consistent, high-quality data collection.
- Integrate Matroid with manufacturing, control, quality, safety, and video-management systems using common industrial protocols.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or another technical field.
- Experience with modern visual recognition models, including detection, segmentation, tracking, action recognition, anomaly detection, or vision-language models.
- Strong Python skills for building reliable systems that interact with models, APIs, databases, customer infrastructure, and production workflows.
- Experience with machine learning and computer vision tools such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, Hugging Face, NumPy, or OpenCV.
Similar jobs
$185,000–$300,000
$195,000–$225,000
$180,000–$220,000
$179,000–$250,000
$225,000–$304,200
Hiring at Matroid and want this page changed or removed? Email info@nextmove.md and we take it down.
Employer postings · How we read postings