Flock - Engineering Manager, Mulitimodal Modeling
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Requirements
• Hands-on experience with multimodal models (e.g., CLIP, SigLIP, BLIP), including fine-tuning, evaluation, and failure analysis. • Deep familiarity with embedding-based retrieval concepts, including contrastive learning, cross-modal alignment, and evaluation methods for vector similarity search. • Experience with embedding storage and retrieval infrastructure at scale, such as vector search built on columnar databases (e.g., Clickhouse) or purpose-built vector stores (e.g., FAISS, Weaviate, Pinecone). • Experience with model compression techniques (e.g., distillation, quantization, pruning) to improve inference efficiency and deployability at scale. • Exposure to multi-GPU or distributed training workflows for scaling training of large multimodal models. • Experience scaling teams through periods of rapid product growth. • 90 Days at Flock • 90 Days at Flock • We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 90-day plans because we believe that good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90-day plan you will receive if you are hired in this role. • The First 30 Days • The First 30 Days • Establish relationships with your team and who they work with, understanding the product, ongoing projects, and what success looks like • Pair with your team to get a hands-on overview of the end-to-end R&D lifecycle for multimodal models. • Lead project management for the team • Get involved with recruiting for your team by participating in interviews • The First 60 Days • The First 60 Days • Lead how the production inference pipeline and search backend work. • Work on a project as an individual contributor to get first hand experience of the R&D experience and how to improve it for your team. • Identify and resolve technical or process inefficiencies to improve team velocity and system reliability. • 90 Days & Beyond • 90 Days & Beyond • Mentor reports on breaking down complex initiatives into clear plans with well-scoped milestones. • Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the model lifecycle, including data curation, evaluation, and deployment. • Lead quarterly planning to align team priorities with business impact and complete your first team performance review cycle.
Benefits
• In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $200,000 and $220,000 as well as Flock Safety Stock Options. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. Your recruiter will discuss this in-depth with you during our first chat. • Location • Location • We’re building the impossible, together. To drive innovation through in-person collaboration, we’re prioritizing candidates in our key hubs: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Austin. While we value the energy of our hub communities, we embrace remote work and welcome applications from exceptional talent across the United States. • 🌴Flexible PTO: We offer non-accrual PTO, plus 11 company holidays. • Flexible PTO • ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match. • Fully-paid • plan for employees • 👪Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time. • Family Leave • 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses. • 🧠Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs. • Spring Health: • 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support • Caregiver Support: • 💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions. • Carta Tax Advisor: • 💚ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer four ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, LEOs and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know. • ERGs: • 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home. • 💻WFH Stipend: • 📚Productivity Stipend: $300 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo and so much more. • 📚Productivity Stipend: • 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office. • 🏠Home Office Stipend: • If an offer is extended and accepted, this position requires the ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment. Applicants must meet all FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background check.
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