# Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Vision AI

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Toast powers restaurants of every size, from neighborhood favorites to the largest multi-unit brands in the industry. We're investing in Vision AI to help operators see more of what's happening in their restaurants and act on it, so they can run more efficiently, provide better service, and become even more profitable. We're looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Vision AI to architect and build the platform behind these products. You'll have an outsized influence on how Vision AI is built and how it reaches restaurants across Toast. This is a highly hands-on role: you'll spend most of your time designing, building, and shipping, and you'll own the technical direction of the platform. A day in the life (Responsibilities) Architect and build the core platform. Design the video pipeline and other essential components, from how video is captured and ingested to how it's stored, processed, and delivered, so the platform is secure and reliable. Own the services that analyze video. Build the

- **Id**: 4304167
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/toast-principal-machine-learning-engineer-vision-ai>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T02:21:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T05:51:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9362
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: POS Systems, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 13243
- **Name**: Toast
- **Domain**: toasttab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/toasttab>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 116
- **Ghost share**: 0.009
- **Stale share**: 0.793
- **Repost share**: 0.026
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 33
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 230000
- **Max**: 368000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 368000

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **FFmpeg** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: yes
- **C** — Optional: yes
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: yes
- **GStreamer** — Optional: yes
- **WebRTC** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T05:51:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 33
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 368000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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