# MTS - Research Scientist at Ironsite AI

- Company: Ironsite AI
- What the company does: Ironsite attacks the single biggest cost lever in construction — labor — by revolutionizing how productivity is tracked and optimized. Backed by South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://ironsite.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/ironsite-ai/am9icG9zdDqWUQYAq8CZ_L--vAob7ELN
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ironsite-ai-mts-research-scientist/

## About the role

We're hiring a Research Scientist to help build the vision-language models that turn Ironsite's data into the intelligence layer we're building. You'll work alongside our Chief Science Officer and the rest of the research team on the training, benchmarking, and deployment of state-of-the-art VLMs that can interpret the complexity of a real construction site. Your models will run on data no other lab has, and they'll ship to jobsites where they actually change how things get built.

## What they're looking for

- 2-4 years of hands-on research experience designing and training deep learning models, particularly transformer-based architectures. Industry experience, top-tier PhD program, or equivalent
- Deep expertise with modern deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or similar) and strong proficiency in Python with solid software engineering fundamentals
- Experience working with large-scale vision or language datasets
- A track record of shipping meaningful research results, whether at a company, in a lab, or in publications
- A background in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, Robotics, or a related field
- Experience with vision-language models, video understanding, or multimodal architectures