# Research Engineer, Post-Training & Vision-Language Models

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data - across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design. Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry. Research Engineer, Post-Training & Vision-Language Models Want to join the leader in AI-powered document understanding? About the Role : Enterprise documents such as contracts, invoices, filings and reports hold some of the world’s most valuable data, and most of it is still locked in layouts, tables and charts that software struggles to read. The Gaia team at Cohesity is building a world-class agentic document processing product to change that. At its heart are vision language models (VLMs) that read do

- **Id**: 4222408
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cohesity-research-engineer-post-training-vision-language-models>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T05:57:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7199
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Insurance coverage, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Information Security, Backup & Disaster Recovery

## Company

- **Id**: 1043373
- **Name**: Cohesity
- **Domain**: cohesity.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cohesity-3>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.654
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 42
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 255600
- **Max**: 284000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 284000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GRPO** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **OCR** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **PPO** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **RLAIF** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no
- **SFT** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: yes
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T05:57:54Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 104 · green card filings: 23; Filings 12m: 104

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T07:48:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 284000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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