# Senior VLM & VFM Field Engineer

Senior Vision-Language Model (VLM) & Visual Foundation Model (VFM) Field Engineer About Matroid Matroid helps enterprises build and operate computer vision systems through an end-to-end platform for training, evaluating, and deploying automated visual inspection. The platform supports a wide range of imagery, including EO, IR, X-Ray, CT, and OCT. Founded in 2016 by a Stanford professor, Matroid works with customers across aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, logistics, data center infrastructure, and security. We’re hiring a Senior Vision-Language Model (VLM) & Visual Foundation Model (VFM) Field Engineer to build and deploy production-grade deep learning systems using Matroid’s platform for a broad range of enterprise customers, such as Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, Boeing, Google, Amazon, Bosch, and many others. You’ll work directly with customers to understand their operations and turn challenging requirements into reliable computer vision and multimodal AI solutions. As the technical owner of complex engagements, you’ll guide architecture, model adaptation, evaluation, integration, and deployment, combining Matroid’s platform with custom engineering. Projects will cover defect inspec

- **Id**: 924949
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/matroid-senior-vlm-vfm-field-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T01:47:49Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-18
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T21:10:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 61
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7296
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Gym membership
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Industrial AI

## Company

- **Id**: 37106
- **Name**: Matroid
- **Domain**: matroid.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/matroid>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Breezy

### Truth index

- **Grade**: D
- **Score**: 50
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0.833
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 145000
- **Max usd**: 290000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1026

## Technologies

- **Anomaly Detection** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Hugging Face** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **NumPy** — Optional: no
- **OpenCV** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **VLM** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: yes
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 60

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T05:53:29Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 2; Filings 12m: 2

## Liveness

- **Score**: 7
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.238
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 61
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

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