Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Vision AI

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ToastRestaurant technology

Location: Remote, USFull-TimeStaff

Salary193,000 - 309,000 USD per year

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Experience: 8+ years building and shipping models in production.
Required Skills: PythonJavaKotlinMachine LearningGoScalaData modelingComputer VisionDistributed Systems

Have 8+ years of experience building and shipping models in production.
Demonstrate mastery of a modern backend language such as Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, or Scala.
Have experience integrating AI or ML models, or LLM and vision-language model APIs, into production features.
Understand data modeling, query languages, and online/offline data patterns that underpin ML systems.
Demonstrate deep proficiency in distributed systems concepts, including consistency, latency, throughput, fault tolerance, and observability.
Have experience taking ambiguous ideas from prototype to production with real customers.
Use AI coding assistants and agent harnesses daily, such as Claude Code or Cursor.
Build pragmatic solutions without over-engineering and know when to invest in more.
Work closely with product, design, and engineering partners and explain tradeoffs clearly.
Have a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Select and integrate vision models, including vision-language models.
Build ML systems around models, including inference pipelines, evaluation, and production performance monitoring.
Contribute to architecture and design decisions with the team.
Partner with product, design, and other Toast teams on integrations and dependencies.
Use AI coding tools and agent harnesses to design, build, test, and ship.
Share AI workflows that help the team work faster.
Maintain quality, testing, reliability, security, and privacy in owned areas.
Support other engineers through code reviews and collaboration.

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