Principal Ml Engineer — Ar & Generative Visual Ai

Sklum customers already design rooms in 3D through HomeByMe, a 3D product experience that runs across our site today. We're rebuilding it into something dramatically richer — AR room design with real Sklum products, AI-generated room imagery, in-context product visualization, virtual staging, and scene composition. It's the centerpiece of our Digital & AI vision and the single largest customer-experience bet Sklum is making over the next two years. We're hiring the person who owns the technical build end to end.
Why this role exists
Vendors don't build exactly what a retailer needs out of the box — closing that gap takes someone who can push a vendor roadmap, not just consume it. Open-source models move faster than any internal roadmap, which means the right stack today won't be the right stack in six months. And most visual AI hires split into two types who won't get this done alone: researchers who won't ship, or integrators who won't push the underlying technology far enou...