Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist role stands out in SaaS because it sits at the intersection of product and frontier ML, applied to a digital experience platform where model quality directly affects end-user workflows. Webflow’s focus on AI-native experiences signals a SaaS environment where research is expected to translate into shipped capabilities, not remain a lab exercise. The remit across computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation reflects how modern SaaS products are increasingly differentiated by embedded intelligence at the interface layer.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role offers durable leverage: setting technical direction, validating bets through rigorous experimentation, and partnering with engineering and product to move from exploration to production-ready systems. That combination builds fluency in the full lifecycle of applied ML inside a subscription product, including model iteration, evaluation discipline, and platform-minded thinking needed to support repeatable deployment. Mentoring and cross-functional influence also map to how senior IC impact is measured in mature SaaS orgs.
This position is best suited to experienced ML scientists who prefer ambiguous, early-stage problem framing and enjoy balancing novelty with practical constraints. It fits professionals motivated by ownership of research agendas, strong collaboration rhythms in a remote-first setup, and the responsibility of raising the bar for scientific quality across a broader product organization.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
At Webflow, we’re building the world’s leading AI-native Digital Experience Platform, and we’re doing it as a remote-first company built on trust, transparency, and a whole lot of creativity. This work takes grit, because we move fast, without ever sacrificing craft or quality. Our mission is to bring development superpowers to everyone. From entrepreneurs launching their first idea to global enterprises scaling their digital presence, we empower teams to design, launch, and optimize for the web without barriers. We believe the future of the web, and work, is more open, more creative, and more equitable. And we’re here to build it together.
We’re looking for a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist to help us solve challenging problems to address emerging customer needs and behaviors. The ideal candidate can move fast but with high quality, and views the early stages of product development as a creative canvas and opportunity for high impact.
About the role:
- Location: Remote-first (United States; BC & ON, Canada)
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Exempt
- Our cash compensation amount for this role ranges depending on the cost of labor of the geographic area. The ranges shared below may change if you are hired in another geographic location.
- United States (all figures cited below in USD and pertain to workers in the United States)
- Zone A: 220,000 - 285,000
- Zone B: 207,000 - 268,000
- Zone C: 194,000 - 251,000
- Canada (All figures cited below in CAD and pertain to workers in ON & BC, Canada)
Please visit our Careers page for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.
- Application Information:
- Application deadline: applications accepted on an ongoing basis until position is closed and filled
- This posting is for a new position
- Reporting to the Director, Engineering
As a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, you’ll:
- Lead and drive ambitious research initiatives that advance the state of the art in computer vision, multimodal understanding, and visual generation.
- Develop novel models, algorithms, and training methodologies for challenging vision problems such as image understanding, video understanding, visual search, scene representation, segmentation, detection, generation, and multimodal reasoning.
- Translate cutting-edge research into practical model improvements that can shape product direction and unlock new user experiences.
- Design, implement, train, and optimize large-scale vision and multimodal foundation models across diverse datasets and tasks.
- Partner closely with applied scientists, ML engineers, and product teams to move research from exploration to production-ready systems.
- Set technical direction for high-impact research areas, identifying promising bets and influencing longer-term strategy for vision and multimodal AI.
- Mentor other scientists and engineers, raise the quality bar for research, and help build a strong scientific culture across the team.
- Stay at the forefront of research in computer vision, multimodal learning, generative modeling, and foundation models, and apply emerging techniques to real-world problems.
About you:
Requirements:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience
You’ll thrive as a Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist if you:
- Deep theoretical and practical expertise in computer vision, with strong foundations in areas such as representation learning, visual recognition, image or video generation, multimodal learning, and large-scale model training.
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field; PhD strongly preferred.
- 8+ years of relevant industry and/or research experience, or equivalent impact, including a track record of driving major research initiatives in computer vision or multimodal machine learning.
- Strong experience with state-of-the-art vision and multimodal model architectures, including transformers, diffusion models, contrastive learning approaches, and foundation models.
- Proven ability to formulate research problems clearly, design rigorous experiments, and translate findings into meaningful model or product advances.
- Strong coding and prototyping skills in Python, with the ability to write clean, scalable, and well-documented research code.
- Proficiency in modern deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, including mentoring scientists or engineers and influencing research direction across a team or organization.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex research clearly to both technical and cross-functional audiences.
- Stay curious and open to growth — demonstrating a proactive embrace of AI, and actively building and applying fluency in emerging technologies to elevate how we work, drive faster outcomes, and expand collective impact.
Our Core Behaviors:
- Build lasting customer trust. We build trust by taking action that puts customer trust first.
- Win together. We play to win, and we win as one team. Success at Webflow isn't a solo act.
- Reinvent ourselves. We don't just improve what exists, we imagine what's possible.
- Deliver with speed, quality, and craft. We move fast because the moment demands it, and we do so without lowering the bar.
Benefits
- Ownership in what you help build. Every permanent Webflower receives equity (RSUs) in our growing, privately held company.
- Health coverage that actually covers you. Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for full-time employees and their dependents, with Webflow covering most premiums.
- Support for every stage of family life. 12 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents and 6+ weeks of additional paid leave for birthing parents. Plus inclusive care for family planning, menopause, and midlife transitions.
- Time off that’s actually off. Flexible vacation, paid holidays, and a sabbatical program to help you recharge and come back inspired.
- Wellness for the whole you. Access to mental health resources, therapy and coaching.
- Invest in your future. A 401(k) with 100% employer match (up to $6,000/year) in the U.S., and support for retirement savings globally.
- Monthly stipends that flex with your life. Localized support for work and wellness expenses — from Wi-Fi to workouts.
- Bonus for building together. All full-time, permanent, non-commission employees are eligible for our annual WIN bonus program.
Temporary employees may be eligible for paid holiday and time off, statutory leaves of absence, and company-sponsored medical benefits depending on their Fixed Term Contract and their country/state of employment.
Remote, together
At Webflow, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity (EEO)/Veterans/Disabled Employer and are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Webflow will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Please note:
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Upon interview scheduling, instructions for confidential accommodation requests will be administered.
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