Lead AI Engineer - Computer Vision

Blend is a premier AI services provider seeking a Senior Data Scientist to contribute to its growth and expansion by designing, developing, and deploying advanced Computer Vision and multimodal AI solutions for real-world business problems.

Requirements

• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end Computer Vision solutions using classical and deep learning approaches.
• Build and optimize models for image classification, object detection, segmentation, and OCR/document understanding.
• Collaborate on data annotation strategies, data augmentation pipelines, and approaches to handle imbalance, noise, and domain shift.
• Evaluate model performance using appropriate metrics (mAP, IoU, Dice, ROC) and perform detailed error analysis.
• Implement model explainability and interpretability techniques such as Grad-CAM and saliency maps.
• Optimize models for production environments, including quantization, pruning, and inference optimization (real-time vs batch).
• Work closely with engineering teams on MLOps practices: monitoring drift, data lineage, and retraining loops.
• Contribute to multimodal and GenAI initiatives, including vision-language models, vision in RAG systems, and image-based prompting.
• Ensure ethical AI practices, considering privacy, PII, dataset bias, and regulatory constraints.

Benefits

• Every day lunches!
• Flexible working options
• All the equipment you need to harness your talent
• Snacks and beverages available everyday
• After office events
• Mentoring and Development opportunities
• Anniversary and birthday gifts
• Great location and even greater teammates