# Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work

Hiring organization: [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/cc45e134-00f4-4c83-a87f-0c67afafc5b4

Listed on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 350000 – 850000 USD per year

## Summary

This role owns the complete pipeline of creating training data and reinforcement learning environments to improve visual reasoning in large language models, partnering across teams to translate research into real-world capabilities. You'll combine applied research with hands-on data work, managing vendor relationships, designing reward systems, and running experiments to measure how data strategy improvements enhance multimodal model performance.

_Our summary, not Menlo Ventures Portfolio's wording._

## Skills named

Computer Vision, Deep Learning, ETL, Machine Learning, Python, PyTorch, Reinforcement Learning

## Required

- 7+ years of machine learning, computer vision, or software engineering experience
- Experience with reinforcement learning or reward design for vision-language models
- Familiarity with architecture and training of large vision-language models
- Ability to manage technical vendor relationships
- Results-oriented with flexibility and impact focus

## Nice to have

- Experience designing evals or benchmarks for LLMs or vision-language models
- Background in large-scale pretraining and reinforcement learning
- Deep learning research on images, video, or other modalities
- Experience developing complex agentic systems with LLMs
- Large-scale ETL and data pipeline development

Apply on Menlo Ventures Portfolio's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5074217008