# Senior Applied Research Scientist - Foundation Models at Ambient.ai

- Company: Ambient.ai
- What the company does: Ambient.ai is transforming physical security with computer vision intelligence, empowering security teams with automated threat detection and visual verification. Backed by Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://ambient.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Redwood City
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-07-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambient.ai/3e2fdf3b-9ee1-4258-86fa-a76f71fa2c97
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ambient-ai-senior-applied-research-scientist-foundation-models/

## About the role

Ambient.ai is hiring a Senior Applied Research Scientist to build the next generation of foundation models for computer vision. You will join a team responsible for building multimodal models with state-of-the-art performance on real-world vision benchmarks. In this role, you’ll own full-cycle model development: from pre-training and fine-tuning on image-language data to applying distillation and compression techniques for deployment.

Tags: Engineering