[Remote] Machine Learning Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PictorLabs Inc is a leading virtual staining company revolutionizing digital pathology adoption worldwide through AI-powered technology. The Machine Learning Engineer will own the representation-learning and generative modeling stack to build production-ready models that support clinical workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead pretraining of foundation representations for high-dimensional images; design SSL objectives, curricula, and evaluations.
• Advance image-to-image translation for virtual staining; incorporate uncertainty and calibration.
• Build similarity/retrieval capabilities over learned embeddings for discovery, triage, search, QA.
• Design robust QC and acceptance criteria; detect/mitigate batch effects and domain shift.
• Productionize models with reliable data/experiment tracking, evaluation automation, and monitored serving.
• Partner tightly with pathologists, product, and engineering to turn research into repeatable workflows.

Skills

• Representation learning: strong grasp of modern self-supervised methods (contrastive, masked, teacher-student).
• Generative modeling: practical experience with image-to-image translation and controllable generation; comfort reasoning about fidelity, consistency, and robustness.
• Scaling & efficiency: distributed training, optimization for training/inference, and high-throughput data pipelines for very large image dataset.
• Evaluation science: design of rigorous metrics and studies. Proficiency with calibration, uncertainty, and error analysis.
• Data-centric ML: dataset curation, augmentation strategy, artifact handling, label noise management, and reproducibility.
• MLOps fundamentals: reproducible experiments, versioned datasets/models, automated benchmarks, monitored inference, and audit-ready documentation.
• Software engineering: production-quality Python and deep-learning stack fluency; testing, code reviews, etc.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives
• Equity participation in a rapidly growing company
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health, dental, and vision insurance
• Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team at the cutting edge of pathology AI

Company Overview

• PictorLabs, Inc. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://www.pictorlabs.ai.

• Company H1B Sponsorship

• PictorLabs Inc has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 2 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.