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You'll teach models to reason about spatial composition, hierarchy, and visual language the way a skilled communicator or designer does.\nThis work sits at the intersection of research rigor and product impact. You’ll have the opportunity to build evals and training data for a field where there isn’t much of either. You’ll fine-tune vision-language models so that Gamma's 100M+ users get exceptional design every time they generate.\nYou'll succeed here if you combine deep expertise in VLMs and multimodal modeling with a research mindset, comfort working in ambiguity, and a rigorous eye for visual and design quality.\nOur team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4 to 5 days per week in San Francisco. 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