[Hiring] Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist @Webflow

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist to help us solve challenging problems to address emerging customer needs and behaviors. The ideal candidate can move fast but with high quality, and views the early stages of product development as a creative canvas and opportunity for high impact.

• Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
• Full-time
• Permanent
• Exempt

As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, you’ll:

• Lead and drive ambitious research initiatives that advance the state of the art in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation.
• Develop novel models, algorithms, and training methodologies for challenging vision problems such as image understanding, video understanding, visual search, scene representation, segmentation, detection, generation, and multimodal reasoning.
• Translate cutting-edge research into practical model improvements that can shape product direction and unlock new user experiences.
• Design, implement, train, and optimize large-scale vision and multimodal foundation models across diverse datasets and tasks.
• Partner closely with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to move research from exploration to production-ready systems.
• Set technical direction for high-impact research areas, identifying promising bets and influencing longer-term strategy for vision and multimodal AI.
• Mentor other scientists and engineers, raise the quality bar for research, and help build a strong scientific culture across the team.
• Stay at the forefront of research in computer vision, multimodal learning, generative modeling, and foundation models, and apply emerging techniques to real-world problems.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
• Deep theoretical and practical expertise in computer vision, with strong foundations in areas such as representation learning, visual recognition, image or video generation, multimodal learning, and large-scale model training.
• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field; PhD strongly preferred.
• 8+ years of relevant industry and/or research experience, or equivalent impact, including a track record of driving major research initiatives in computer vision or multimodal machine learning.
• Strong experience with state-of-the-art vision and multimodal model architectures, including transformers, diffusion models, contrastive learning approaches, and foundation models.
• Proven ability to formulate research problems clearly, design rigorous experiments, and translate findings into meaningful model or product advances.
• Strong coding and prototyping skills in Python, with the ability to write clean, scalable, and well-documented research code.
• Proficiency in modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring scientists or engineers and influencing research direction across a team or organization.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex research clearly to both technical and cross-functional audiences.
• Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact.

Requirements

• Ownership in what you help build.
• Health coverage that actually covers you.
• Support for every stage of family life.
• Time off that’s actually off.
• Wellness for the whole you.
• Invest in your future.
• Monthly stipends that flex with your life.
• Bonus for building together.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
• Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
• Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
• A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
• Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
• All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.