Data Engineer, Machine Learning

The posting, as Vizcom wrote it

DATA ENGINEER, MACHINE LEARNING

San Francisco, CA · In Person · Full-Time

Applying to this role will also allow us to consider you for other research opportunities at Vizcom. We believe the best roles are shaped around exceptional people, not just job descriptions.

ABOUT VIZCOM

Vizcom is where design teams at companies like Nike, GM, New Balance, and Hasbro bring ideas from sketch to product. Designers use Vizcom to sketch, render, explore color and materials, work in 3D, and prepare concepts for production.

The render itself was never the point. The point is the physical thing that comes after it. We call this pencil to product.

Vizcom is a Series B company with more than $52M raised.

More than 700,000 designers have worked in Vizcom, and every session leaves a trail: candidates selected, outputs promoted into designs, regions masked and renamed, and entire directions kept or discarded.

That trail is one of the most valuable things we create outside of the product itself. Today, though, it's more archaeology than asset. Only a fraction of what happens in a session reaches training-grade quality, while increasingly sophisticated post-training methods depend on exactly this kind of high-quality, domain-specific data.

Your job will be to help turn that trail into a machine.

A design session isn't a simple sequence — it's a branching tree. Designers fork, backtrack, iterate, and abandon entire directions on their way to the thing they ultimately keep. The judgment lives in the shape of that process, and today we capture only pieces of it.

THE ROLE

As an ML Data Engineer, you'll build and improve the systems that turn professional design work into training-grade preference data and training results back into a better product.

You'll work alongside the researchers consuming what you build, within the product systems where these signals originate, and across the data infrastructure where they ultimately land. Your closest users are the researchers sitting beside you, and you'll see quickly when a dataset you've built allows them to ask a question they couldn't ask before.

This is not a support role, and it isn't traditional offline ETL.

The pipelines you work on will run through a live product used every day by professional design teams, including enterprise customers with rigorous expectations around privacy and data protection. Capturing better signals without compromising user trust, contractual obligations, or product performance is a core part of the work.

If you want to train models without building the systems that feed them, this probably isn't the role for you. If you believe the next advances in ML will increasingly be won through better data, it might be.

We think about a dataset as a product: it has users, versions, provenance, and a quality bar. A training result should be reproducible from a dataset fingerprint months later, and "Where did this example come from?" should always have an answer.

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The actual offer and overall compensation package will be determined based on multiple factors, including relevant experience, skills, qualifications, and business considerations. The compensation and benefits described in this posting apply to U.S.-based W-2 employees and may vary based on applicable employment laws and requirements.

HOW WE WORK

• We document what we learned, not just what we worked on.
• Negative results are valuable when they help us close off the wrong paths.
• Results should be reproducible before they earn additional compute.
• We share meaningful research through technical write-ups, demonstrations, and showcases where appropriate.
• Our interview process emphasizes real-world problem solving and practical technical work rather than LeetCode-style interviews.

LOCATION

This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA.

JOIN US

At Vizcom, we move quickly, give people meaningful ownership, and offer the opportunity to shape both our product and our company as we grow. We believe deeply in the craft of industrial design and in building tools that help designers bring better ideas into the physical world.

Join us in shaping a world designed by you.

A NOTE TO CANDIDATES AND RECRUITING AGENCIES

Please apply directly through this job posting. To help us keep our hiring process fair and organized, we ask candidates not to contact Vizcom employees directly regarding their application or candidacy.

Vizcom is not seeking assistance from external recruiting agencies or search firms for this role. Please do not contact or solicit Vizcom employees regarding recruiting services, candidate submissions, or agency partnerships. Unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles submitted by agencies will not create a fee obligation on behalf of Vizcom.

As part of Vizcom's SOC 2 Type II compliance program, employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check, as permitted by applicable law.