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Principal Tech Lead - VLM/LLM
Posted: 07/24/2025
Employment Type:
Direct Hire
Job Number: 30734
Job Location:
Industry: AUTO - Automotive
Job Description
Position Title: Principal Tech Lead - VLM/LLM
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Remote Direct Hire opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Qualifications:
Preferred Job Qualifications:
Job Details:
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting Remote Direct Hire opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers and researchers in developing data products utilizing foundation models such as multi-modal encoding models (CLIP-style models), vision language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) and adapt them to the autonomous driving domain via pre-training, fine-tuning and prompt optimization.
- Drive innovation by researching and experimenting with new VLM/LLM techniques and technologies.
- Own large-scale mining workflows that surface rare objects, model errors & long-tail events.
- Build high-quality datasets to improve ML products through training & edge case validation.
- Provide statistical depth on model performance & generalization through rigorous error analysis across complex driving scenarios.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
- Manage project timelines, resources, and deliverables to ensure successful project execution
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
- Extensive experience in machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing.
- Proven experience in developing and deploying VLM/LLM models.
- Strong programming skills in Python and familiarity with machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Experience with large-scale data processing and distributed computing technologies.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Job Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Experience with machine learning in the autonomous driving domain.
- Publications or contributions to the AI/ML community.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Direct Hire
- Location: Remote
- Salary Range: $175 – 281K/year
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.
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