
Oumi is a community of researchers, developers, and institutions united in their mission to make frontier AI more open, collaborative, and accessible. Oumi offers an unconditionally open-source AI platform that empowers the broader community to push the boundaries of AI while enabling enterprises to enhance and truly own their AI destiny. The Oumi platform allows users to build, evaluate, and deploy cutting-edge AI models at any scale through an all-in-one, fully open-source solution.

Oumi is a community of researchers, developers, and institutions united in their mission to make frontier AI more open, collaborative, and accessible. Oumi offers an unconditionally open-source AI platform that empowers the broader community to push the boundaries of AI while enabling enterprises to enhance and truly own their AI destiny. The Oumi platform allows users to build, evaluate, and deploy cutting-edge AI models at any scale through an all-in-one, fully open-source solution.
What they do: Open-source AI platform for training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying foundation models
Business model: Open-source platform plus hosted enterprise offering
Founders / leadership: Led by Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis (CEO) with a multi-person founding team from Google, Apple, Cohere and academia
Funding: $10M Seed announced Jan 29, 2025; led by Venrock and Obvious Ventures
Mission: Advocate for fully open foundation models (open code, data, and weights)
Tools and infrastructure for building and deploying foundation AI models with an emphasis on openness and community collaboration.
Software Development
$10.0M
“Led by institutional early-stage investors (Venrock, Obvious Ventures) with participation from corporate partners and named angels”
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About Oumi Why we exist: Oumi is on a mission to make frontier AI truly open for all. We are founded on the belief that AI will have a transformative impact on humanity, and that developing it collectively, in the open, is the best path forward to ensure that it is done efficiently and safely.
What we do: Oumi provides an all-in-one platform to build state-of-the-art AI models, end to end, from data preparation to production deployment, empowering innovators to build cutting-edge models at any scale. Oumi also develops open foundation models in collaboration with academic collaborators and the open community.
Oumi is fundamentally an open-source first company, with open-collaboration across the community as a core principle. Our work is:
Role Overview The Research Scientist will be an integral part of Oumi's research team, focusing on advancing the state-of-the-art in large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs), and related technologies. This role involves conducting cutting-edge research, contributing to open-source projects, and collaborating with other researchers and engineers. Researchers at Oumi will work on various aspects of LLM/VLM development including training, evaluation, data curation, and benchmark development.
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Location: Hybrid work environment, with offices in:
Compensation Range: $125K - $200K