Lead, LS Footwear Developer (VN)

At a Glance:

As a Lead Innovation Footwear Developer, you will be a driving force at the forefront of On's product evolution from the Vietnam side. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy to lead complex projects, challenge conventions, and champion innovative approaches that define the future of footwear. This role requires you to master technical complexity, manage key stakeholder relationships, and translate visionary concepts into scalable, performance-driven products.

Your Team:

On's Lightspray Innovation team is an agile, interdisciplinary group of footwear creation, advanced manufacturing, and future of sport experts, driving On's future innovations and athlete-informed technologies that set On footwear apart.

We challenge the status quo and push boundaries to pioneer footwear innovation. As a member of the On Innovation Team, you will think outside the box and bring new, innovative ideas to life.

Your Mission:

• Lead and own the end-to-end creation of high-impact, innovative product concepts. You will manage multiple projects independently, from initial strategy and conception through to commercialization, ensuring alignment with overarching company goals.
• Leverage your expert knowledge of manufacturing processes, material properties, and product construction to troubleshoot significant and unique issues. With a strong root-cause analysis mindset, you will tackle challenges in tooling, molding, and assembly, and develop new material applications, process ideas and specifications.
• Act as a key influencer and central communication hub between diverse internal teams and major external T1/T2 partners. You will manage expectations, negotiate effectively, and confidently communicate with stakeholders at all levels, including senior management.
• Critically assess and validate last shapes with last engineers to perfect the intended fit and performance. You will collaborate with computational designers, footwear developers and commercialisation engineers to pioneer upper and construction adjustments that enhance fit, durability, and ensure scalable manufacturing.
• Own the documentation of complex tooling and upper-related issues, defining and communicating clear correction actions to all stakeholders. You will create and manage comprehensive tech packs, specification sheets, and BOMs, while driving development timelines to meet critical calendar milestones.
• Act as a leader within the team, determining methods and procedures for new assignments and potentially supervising the activities of other team members.

Your Story:

• 8+ years of progressive experience in footwear development, with a significant focus on innovation and bringing new technologies to market.
• Expert-level knowledge of advanced footwear manufacturing processes, including tooling, molding, injecting, welding, lasting, and assembly. You understand factory capabilities, tolerances, and limitations and know how to design for scalable replication.
• A natural technical curiosity and a robust, root-cause analysis approach to problem-solving.
• In-depth, demonstrated knowledge of advanced footwear materials, their properties, and performance characteristics, including experience with advanced testing and analysis.
• Proven ability to not only lead the scaling of new technologies but also to assess their commercial viability and factory readiness.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to confidently present and defend concepts to senior management and external partners.
• A demonstrated ability to work with a high degree of autonomy, navigating ambiguity and making independent judgments on complex and significant issues.
• Experience in mentoring junior team members or supervising project activities is a strong plus.
• Comfortable and proficient with industrial machinery and hands-on prototyping.
• High level of English language proficiency is highly regarded..
• Ability to travel up to 10-15% of the time.

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.
Your Impact

We are seeking highly skilled and innovative Machine Learning Scientists to join our AI team, focusing on AI applications (LLM and Computer Vision) in Cloud, Devices and Robotics. As a key member of our research and development efforts, you will play a crucial role in advancing the state-of-the-art in Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Computer Vision and GenAI technologies for law enforcement and beyond. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy cutting-edge LLM, MLLM, CV models and algorithms and solutions that enable intelligent reasoning, perception and understanding of multimodal data.

What You’ll Do
Work Location: This role is based out of our Ho Chi Minh City office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Responsibilities

• Own one or more key technical areas across LLM, MLLM, CV product portfolio.
• Provide technical leadership to junior scientists, guiding the transition of R&D concepts into impactful Axon product feature.
• Research and develop cutting-edge techniques in LLM, MLLMs, GenAI, and Computer Vision across cloud, devices and sensors based data sources.
• Design and implement efficient and scalable MLLM models for inference and analysis of multimodal data.
• Explore novel approaches to address challenges in NLP, NLU, Object Detection, Object Recognition, Object Tracking, Segmentation, and Scene Understanding.
• Optimize AI models, algorithms for performance, memory footprint, and energy efficiency to meet the requirements of resource-constrained devices.
• Join force with MLEs or firmware or hardware engineers to leverage hardware accelerators and optimize algorithms for specific hardware architectures.
• Evaluate the performance of LLM, MLLM, CV models using real-world datasets and design experiments to validate their effectiveness.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest research trends and advancements in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, MLLMs, GenAI and integrate relevant findings into our projects.
• Contribute to patent disclosures, academic publications, and technical documentation to share insights and findings with the broader community.
• Experience coach and mentor junior scientists.

What You Bring

• PhD and with +5 years for ML Scientist, +8 years for Sr. ML Scientist experience in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on LLM, MLLMs, Computer Vision, GenAI.
• Proven track record of research excellence in LLM, MLLM, Computer Vision, Robotics Perception, GenAI, demonstrated through publications in top-tier conferences or journals.
• Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, C/C++, experience with deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Keras and experience with ROS or robotic operational system.
• Drive one or more phases of the ML development lifecycle: shape datasets, investigate modeling approaches and architectures, train/evaluate/tune models and implement the end-to-end training pipeline.
• Leverage state-of-the-art research to deliver high quality models enabling multiple AI projects at scale.
• Contribute back to the research community via academic publications, tech blogs, open-source code and contributing to internal/external AI challenges
• Experience in developing computer vision algorithms for resource-constrained devices such as mobile phones, IoT devices, or embedded systems is highly desirable.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical thinking, and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively in a team environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively present complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits that Benefit You

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Robust Paid Time Off policy
• Bonuses
• Lunch allowance
• Cell phone stipend
• Free LinkedIn Learning account or Udemy account
• Access to 24/7 online emotional and mental support
• Gym membership
• Free parking
• Stocked fridges and pantries - free coffee, cold beverages, snacks
• Annual Company Outing Trip
• Monthly team social activities

About the Company

The company is the world’s first licensed hybrid decentralized exchange (DEX), on a mission to make wealth-building as natural as daily life. It is building a compliant, self-custodial platform for premium tokenized strategies—from crypto to alternative investments—on trusted infrastructure. As a Design System Designer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the visual and functional foundations of a next-generation financial platform. You will be responsible for building, evolving, and maintaining a scalable design language that bridges the gap between complex trading products and high-impact marketing initiatives. This role is ideal for a systems thinker who thrives on creating consistency, scalability, and high-quality craft across both desktop and mobile environments.

Key Responsibilities

• System Evolution & Maintenance: Design and maintain comprehensive, scalable Figma libraries for both product teams (trading platforms, wallets, onboarding) and marketing teams (social templates, landing pages, campaign kits).

• Standardization: Document and govern cross-functional visual standards—including typography, color theory, spacing, iconography, and motion—to ensure a balance between brand expression and accessibility.

• Component Development: Build and document a library of reusable UI components (modals, charts, tables, inputs, etc.) with clearly defined interaction states and technical specifications.

• Engineering Collaboration: Partner closely with developers to ensure design-to-code parity, participating in handoff processes, QA, and the implementation of React-based component libraries.

• Marketing Support: Develop modular systems for social media, email campaigns, webinars, and pitch decks to ensure brand consistency across all touchpoints.

• Interaction Design: Create sophisticated motion patterns and micro-interactions that enhance usability and bring the platform’s brand to life.

• Audit & Governance: Perform regular audits of existing experiences to identify and rectify inconsistencies in design usage and accessibility.

• Strategic Contribution: Participate in design critiques and contribute to the system roadmap based on emerging product features and industry best practices.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product, UX, or Interaction Design, with at least 3 years dedicated specifically to building and maintaining design systems.

• Technical Mastery: Deep proficiency in Figma, including advanced features like tokens, variables, auto layout, and variants.

• Systems Thinking: A proven ability to think modularly and create scalable solutions for complex, data-heavy interfaces.

• Communication: Exceptional skills in articulating design decisions and collaborating across engineering, product, and marketing departments.

• Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), Google’s Material Design, and accessibility standards (WCAG).

• Portfolio: A strong portfolio demonstrating your ability to bridge the gap between branding and functional product design.

Are you an experienced Cantonese language professional eager to shape the future of AI? Large-scale language models are evolving rapidly, moving beyond simple chatbots into powerful engines of learning, communication, and cultural understanding. With high-quality training data, tomorrow’s AI can deliver more natural, accurate, and contextually rich Cantonese experiences across education, accessibility, and global communication. That training data begins with you—your expertise will help power the next generation of AI.

We’re looking for a highly skilled Cantonese language specialist who can bring linguistic depth, cultural context, and precision to training data. You’ll work with cutting-edge AI tools, evaluate and refine Cantonese text outputs, and provide expert feedback on grammar, syntax, semantics, style, and cultural appropriateness to strengthen model performance.

On a typical day, you will review and annotate Cantonese content, assess AI-generated outputs for accuracy and fluency, identify and document error patterns, and collaborate with our team to refine prompts, evaluation methods, and linguistic guidelines.

Fluency in Cantonese is required, along with demonstrated experience in translation, linguistics, language teaching, editing, or related professional work. Experience in training, coaching, or linguistic annotation is a plus. Clear communication skills, cultural knowledge, and attention to detail are essential.

Ready to channel your Cantonese expertise into building the AI tools of tomorrow? Apply today and help shape the model that will support millions of Cantonese speakers worldwide.

We offer a pay range of $8 to $65 per hour, with the exact rate determined after evaluating your experience, expertise, and geographic location. Final offer amounts may vary from the pay range listed above. As a contractor you’ll supply a secure computer and stable internet connection; company-sponsored benefits such as health insurance and PTO do not apply.

Job title: Cantonese Language Specialist – AI Trainer
Employment type: Contract
Workplace type: Remote
Seniority level: Mid-Senior