Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist

About the Role Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist to advance the state of the art in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation at Webflow. This remote-first role reports to the Director, Engineering and will lead research that informs product direction and scales to production. What You'll Do

• Lead and drive ambitious research initiatives in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation.
• Develop novel models, algorithms, and training methodologies for image understanding, video understanding, visual search, scene representation, segmentation, detection, generation, and multimodal reasoning.
• Translate cutting-edge research into practical model improvements that shape product direction and unlock new user experiences.
• Design, implement, train, and optimize large-scale vision and multimodal foundation models across diverse datasets and tasks.
• Partner with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to move research from exploration to production-ready systems.
• Set technical direction for high-impact research areas, identifying promising bets and influencing longer-term strategy for vision and multimodal AI.
• Mentor other scientists and engineers, raise the quality bar for research, and help build a strong scientific culture across the team.
• Stay at the forefront of research in computer vision, multimodal learning, generative modeling, and foundation models, and apply emerging techniques to real-world problems. What We're Looking For
• BA/BS degree or equivalent experience; advanced degree (PhD strongly preferred).
• 8+ years of relevant industry or research experience with a track record of driving major research initiatives in computer vision or multimodal ML.
• Deep theoretical and practical expertise in computer vision, with strong foundations in representation learning, visual recognition, image/video generation, multimodal learning, and large-scale model training.
• Strong experience with state-of-the-art vision and multimodal model architectures, including transformers, diffusion models, contrastive learning approaches, and foundation models.
• Proficiency in Python and modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow; ability to write clean, scalable, well-documented research code.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, and ability to influence research direction; strong communication to technical and cross-functional audiences.
• Curious and growth-oriented, actively building fluency in emerging AI technologies. Compensation & Benefits
• Equity (RSUs) in a growing, privately held company.
• Health coverage: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with premiums covered by Webflow.
• Family leave: 12 weeks paid parental leave for all parents; 6+ weeks additional paid leave for birthing parents; inclusive care for family planning.
• Time off: flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program.
• Wellness: mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
• Retirement: 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S.; support for retirement savings globally.
• Monthly stipends and localized support for work and wellness expenses (e.g., Wi‑Fi).
• Salary ranges by location: US Zone A: 232,000 - 290,000 USD; Zone B: 217,600 - 272,000 USD; Zone C: 204,800 - 256,000 USD; Canada ON/BC: 253,000 - 316,000 CAD.