Staff Foundation Model Scientist/Engineer Bay Area / Paris / Remote 35

Robotics Control Vision-Language-Action Models

Build vision-language-action models for robotics control end-to-end:

data curation, careful evaluation, model architecture, training/inference stacks, rigorous experiments

Collaborate with simulation and real-world robotics teams to curate high-quality, diverse, and large-scale datasets

Curate the world's best internet-scale datasets for embodied perception and first-person robot video generation

Design new generative simulation techniques to expand simulation data scale and diversity, training and evaluating generative models of 3D objects and environments, and language/code models to generate tasks and reward functions

Collaborate with a team of driven individuals committed to building general-purpose physical AI

What you'll bring

Passion for your craft and demonstrated excellence in full-stack foundation model research and engineering

Exceptional ownership and initiativefinding and solving problems independently

Extensive experience pioneering new machine learning ideas or refining existing methods, supported by first-author publications or impactful projects (5+ years)

A relentless commitment to data and code quality, rigorous evaluation, and meticulous attention to detail

Production-level expertise in modern Python

Bonus

Experience with vision-language-action models for robotics or web agents, embodied perception, or video generation