Matroid
VLM & VFM Forward Deployed Engineer
new $150K–$300K
Almost every FDE listing right now is an LLM job wearing a deployment hat; this one wants vision-language and visual foundation models pointed at defect inspection and PLC/SCADA integration. The 2x band width ($150K–$300K) says Matroid hasn't decided whether it's hiring a CV researcher or a field engineer — and the JD reads like it genuinely wants both.
Palo Alto, CA computer visionrare verticalmanufacturingwide bandresearch-adjacent