# Principal Multimodal AI Engineer – Vision & Language Architectures

- Link: https://accel-dna.com/jobs/principal-multimodal-ai-engineer-vision-language/
- Published: 2026-10-23T19:00:00+00:00
- Author: Umar Mahmud

## Opportunity Overview

**Location:** 100% Remote (United States)
**Employment Type:** Full-Time Direct-
Hire via Accel DNA**Compensation Range:** $210,000 – $250,000 Base + Significant
Equity**Hiring Agency:** Accel DNA – Premier Frontier Data & AI Talent Partner

Lead technical research and production deployment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs)
for complex document understanding, visual QA, and video processing.

## Key Responsibilities:

 * Fine-tune and deploy open-weight vision-language foundation models (Qwen-VL, 
   Llama-Vision, Pixtral) for high-accuracy document intelligence.
 * Build spatial visual grounding and object-level reasoning pipelines extracting
   structured tables and diagrams from engineering blueprints.
 * Optimize multimodal model inference through visual token pruning and cross-attention
   quantization.
 * Collaborate with applied product squads to integrate visual reasoning agents 
   into enterprise workflows.

## What You Bring:

 * MS or PhD in Computer Vision, Machine Learning, or related field with 5+ years
   of applied deep learning experience.
 * Demonstrated track record training and fine-tuning Vision Transformers (ViT) 
   and cross-modal attention mechanisms.
 * Expertise in PyTorch, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and distributed GPU
   training.
 * First-author publications or notable open-source contributions in multimodal 
   AI are highly valued.

## How to Apply:

Interested in exploring this opportunity? Submit your profile or portfolio directly
to [contact@accel-dna.com](https://accel-dna.com/jobs/principal-multimodal-ai-engineer-vision-language/contact@accel-dna.com)
or apply through [https://accel-dna.com/contact-us/](https://accel-dna.com/contact-us/).