# Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research at LlamaIndex

- Company: LlamaIndex
- What the company does: LlamaParse is the world. Backed by Greylock and Norwest.
- Company website: https://www.llamaindex.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/llamaindex/5ef32675-090d-4eb2-bca0-ddb6fbde0215
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/llamaindex-member-of-technical-staff-applied-research/

## About the role

We are looking for an AI Research Engineer to join our document understanding team. This role is ideal for someone who sits between applied research and strong engineering. You will work on vision-language models, document processing, data curation, synthetic data generation, benchmarking, training, fine-tuning, and post-training. The goal is simple: make our document AI systems more accurate, faster, and more cost-effective in production.

## What they're looking for

- 3–7 years of experience in machine learning engineering, applied research, or research engineering
- Strong ML foundation, including hands-on experience benchmarking and training models
- Strong Python skills and comfort with modern ML tooling, especially PyTorch
- Experience with computer vision, vision-language models, NLP, document AI, OCR, extraction, or agentic AI systems
- Ability to build experiments, evaluate results, and iterate quickly toward measurable performance improvements
- Strong engineering judgment and ability to write clean, production-quality code

Tags: Engineering