Hugging Face is hiring a Senior Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision. You will leverage your deep expertise to boost support for vision and multimodal models within our open-source ecosystem. Your work will focus on libraries like Transformers and Datasets, aiming to provide the machine learning community with the best, simplest, and most intuitive computer-vision tool stack available.
What You'll Do
- Enhance the support for vision or multimodal models and datasets within existing open-source libraries, such as Transformers and Datasets.
- Build and refine the best computer-vision tool stack in the machine learning ecosystem.
- Foster our active machine learning community by helping users contribute to and utilize the tools you create.
- Interact daily with researchers, ML practitioners, and data scientists through platforms like GitHub, forums, and Slack.
- Work with cross-functional teams, reviewing contributions and guiding junior contributors.
What We're Looking For
- Deep expertise in computer vision: object detection, segmentation, generative models, or multimodal systems.
- A strong open-source presence with significant contributions to CV libraries (e.g., OpenCV, Detectron2, MMDetection, or Hugging Face’s own transformers/diffusers) as a Core-Contributor or maintainer.
- A scalability mindset with experience optimizing models for production, deploying at scale, or improving inference efficiency.
- Alignment with our mission to democratize AI and empower builders with state-of-the-art tools.
- Hands-on experience building, optimizing, training, and serving models in PyTorch and/or TensorFlow.
Nice to Have
- You enjoy collaboration and mentorship, working with cross-functional teams, reviewing contributions, and guiding junior contributors.
Technical Stack
- Transformers
- Datasets
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- OpenCV
- Detectron2
- MMDetection
- Diffusers
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.
- Company equity as part of your compensation package.
- Opportunity to visit our offices in NYC and Paris.
- Workstation outfitting to ensure you succeed.
Work Mode
This is a US Remote position.
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.



