Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. As a Staff Machine Learning Scientist, you will lead the advancement of our core embedding-based retrieval systems, with a primary focus on the scientific aspects of modeling.
Requirements
- 7+ years of industry experience in Machine Learning with a focus on representation learning, multimodal modeling, or embedding-based retrieval.
- Deep domain knowledge in at least one area: computer vision, natural language processing, or recommendation systems.
- Strong proficiency in PyTorch, with experience fine-tuning foundation models and adapting pretrained vision-language models to real-world tasks.
- Demonstrated ability to customize and extend model architectures, training loops, loss functions, and data pipelines to deliver impact.
- Experience with embedding-based retrieval, including contrastive learning, multimodal alignment, and designing evaluation methods for vector similarity search and embedding quality.
- Solid engineering fundamentals in Python, with familiarity in Git, SQL, and Bash.
- Comfortable working independently and navigating ambiguity, with a track record of solving open-ended modeling problems.
Benefits
- Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
- Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
- Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
- Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family.
- Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
- ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion.
- WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
- Productivity Stipend: $300 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
- Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
