This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Member of Engineering (Multimodality - Research Lead) based in Italy.

This role offers the opportunity to lead the development of multimodal capabilities for next-generation AI systems.
You will build and shape a new research area, defining how advanced models understand and interact with visual information.
The position combines hands-on research, engineering excellence, and strategic ownership of a critical AI capability.
You will work with cutting-edge infrastructure, large-scale model training environments, and a highly collaborative research team.
Your work will directly influence the evolution of intelligent systems designed to transform software development and complex problem-solving.
This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-moving, ambitious AI research environment.

Accountabilities:

The successful candidate will own the direction and execution of multimodality research initiatives,



bringing advanced visual understanding capabilities into frontier AI models. This role requires both strategic thinking and hands-on technical contribution, from defining research priorities to implementing and scaling experiments.
- Own the multimodality roadmap and drive adoption of multimodal capabilities across AI models.
- Build and launch initial image-input capabilities for advanced coding and agentic systems.
- Define the evolution path from adapter-based approaches toward native multimodal architectures.
- Design and execute experiments across the full research lifecycle, including hypothesis formation, implementation, large-scale training, and analysis.
- Collaborate with research and engineering teams focused on evaluations, architecture, data, and post-training.
- Develop custom datasets and evaluation strategies to measure multimodal software engineering capabilities.
- Contribute to building a new research f

📌 Member of Engineering (Italia)
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