Machine Learning Researcher
Cape Town, South Africa Full-time
researchmlcomputer-visionnlp
About the Role
Push the boundaries of what's possible in zero-shot multimodal discovery. You'll design, implement, and evaluate novel architectures that power Solenya's core technology.
Responsibilities
- Research and develop advanced ML models for e-commerce discovery.
- Run hyperparameter optimization and ablation studies.
- Design novel loss functions and training objectives.
- Manage experiment tracking and reproducibility.
- Publish results and contribute to the broader research community.
- Work with PyTorch, HuggingFace, and custom training infrastructure.
Qualifications
- 3+ years of ML research experience (academia or industry).
- Strong publication record in CV, NLP, or recommendation systems.
- Expert-level PyTorch and deep learning fundamentals.
- Experience with RL, representation learning, or multimodal models.
- Ability to go from paper to production prototype quickly.
Why Solenya?
Real research, real impact. Your models won't sit in a paper — they'll serve millions of product queries per day.
Interested? Email us at careers@solenya.ai.