Job brief: Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Vision AI

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• Listed on Toast's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-14 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-14.
• The apply link opens careers.toasttab.com, the address Toast's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
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What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $230,000 to $368,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Remote, US · Remote - USA
• Posted: 2026-11-14

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Principal".

Must have

• Deep engineering experience. 10+ years building software, including designing and shipping distributed systems and data pipelines in production at scale.

Conditions

• You're uncomfortable with ambiguity. The problems we take on and the best ways to solve them will keep evolving, and priorities will shift as we learn from customers.
• Our Approach to Hybrid Working
• We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs.
• Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

Main duties

• Architect and build the core platform.
• Design the video pipeline and other essential components, from how video is captured and ingested to how it's stored, processed, and delivered, so the platfo…
• Own the services that analyze video.
• Build the services that process footage, run vision models, and turn what they see into observations and metrics restaurants can act on.
• Build ML systems and drive model choices.

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs across the U.S.: $159k a year (2,665 listings, 113 employers). This listing is 88% higher.
• Across Toast's 100 open listings, 13% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Toast hires

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