New York, New York, United States Hybrid Employment

Hugging Face is hiring an Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer

About the Role

Hugging Face is looking for an Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Computer Vision. You will leverage your deep expertise to enhance and support our open-source libraries, creating the most intuitive and powerful computer vision tooling in the ML ecosystem for our global community.

What You'll Do

  • Work with open-source libraries like Transformers and Datasets to boost support for vision or multi-modal models and datasets.
  • Provide the best computer-vision tool stack in the machine learning ecosystem.
  • Build the best, simplest, and most intuitive computer-vision library in the industry.
  • Foster one of the most active machine learning communities, helping users contribute to and use the tools you build.
  • Interact with Researchers, ML practitioners, and data scientists daily through GitHub, forums, or slack.

What We're Looking For

  • Deep expertise in computer vision: object detection, segmentation, generative models, or multimodal systems.
  • Strong open-source presence: Significant contributions to CV libraries (e.g., OpenCV, Detectron2, MMDetection, or Hugging Face’s own transformers/diffusers), as a Core-Contributor or maintainer.
  • Scalability mindset: Experience optimizing models for production, deploying at scale, or improving inference efficiency.
  • Collaboration & mentorship: Enjoy working with cross-functional teams, reviewing PRs, and guiding junior contributors.
  • Alignment with our mission: Believe in democratizing AI and want to empower millions of builders with state-of-the-art tools.

Nice to Have

  • Experience building, optimizing, and training Transformers models in computer vision using PyTorch and/or TensorFlow.
  • Experience serving models in production.

Technical Stack

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Transformers
  • Datasets

Team & Environment

You will interact with Researchers, ML practitioners, and data scientists daily.

Benefits & Compensation

  • Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education.
  • Flexible working hours and remote options.
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their dependents.
  • Parental leave and flexible paid time off.
  • Opportunity to visit offices in NYC and Paris (if remote).
  • Workstation outfitting if needed.
  • Company equity as part of compensation package.

Work Mode

This role follows a hybrid work model and is based in NYC or Paris.

Hugging Face is an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Required Skills
PyTorchTensorFlowTransformersDatasetsComputer VisionObject DetectionSegmentationGenerative ModelsMultimodal SystemsOpenCVDetectron2MMDetectionModel OptimizationModel DeploymentInference Efficiency
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Hugging Face

We're on a journey to democratize good AI. We are building the fastest growing platform for AI builders with over 11 million users who collectively shared over 2M models, 700k datasets & 600k apps. Our open-source libraries have more than 600k+ stars on Github.

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Posted 14 days ago