ML Community Ops Engineer - Clarifai

About the Company

Clarifai is a leading, compute orchestration AI platform specializing in computer vision and generative AI. We empower organizations to transform unstructured image, video, text, and audio data into actionable insights, significantly faster and more accurately than manual processes. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, 

Ph.D., Clarifai has been at the forefront of AI innovation since achieving the top five placements in the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Our diverse, globally distributed team operates across the United States, Canada, Estonia, Argentina, and India.

We have secured $100M in funding, including a $60M Series C round, backed by industry leaders such as Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, NEA, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, Google Ventures, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Osage.

Clarifai is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive team.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify trending open-source AI models with strong community adoption, import them into the Clarifai Community, and validate them across real-world use cases.
• Create clear, engaging previews and demos—both technical and non-technical—that showcase model capabilities.
• Collaborate with Marketing to promote new models and generate compelling content around them.
• Engage with the open-source AI community to build relationships with original model authors and increase backlink visibility.
• Develop lightweight Python-based demos and utilities to highlight model performance and usability.

Impact

As an ML Community Ops Engineer, you will directly contribute to growing Clarifai’s model ecosystem by adding cutting-edge AI models and making them accessible to users. Your work will expand Clarifai’s reach, improve discoverability, and ensure our platform remains at the forefront of open-source AI. By bridging engineering, marketing, and community engagement, you’ll help solidify Clarifai’s presence in the AI developer ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strong experience developing, fine-tuning, and evaluating machine learning models, including familiarity with model architectures and key evaluation metrics.
• Expertise in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) and architectures such as transformers and CNNs.
• Actively follows AI and ML trends—staying current with emerging models, benchmarks, and communities.
• Proficiency in Python, with ability to write clean, efficient code for ML workflows and data pipelines.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) for model deployment and compute orchestration.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including Git, modular design, and code testing.
• Practical experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and analysis of large datasets.

Great to Have

• Strong experience developing, fine-tuning, and evaluating machine learning models, including familiarity with model architectures and key evaluation metrics.
• Expertise in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) and architectures such as transformers and CNNs.
• Actively follows AI and ML trends—staying current with emerging models, benchmarks, and communities.
• Proficiency in Python, with ability to write clean, efficient code for ML workflows and data pipelines.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) for model deployment and compute orchestration.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including Git, modular design, and code testing.
• Practical experience with data preprocessing, feature engineering, and analysis of large datasets.