Robotics AI Research Engineer: Vision-Language Models

Mistral Ai; Paris; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on robotics. You will design, train, and deploy SOTA robotics models (VLM, VLA) and apply them to diverse use cases.

You'll work cross-functionally with internal and external science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions. You will run pre-training, build datasets, develop tools, and collaborate with client teams to tackle complex use cases and deliver results.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English with excellent communication skills.
• Expert with PyTorch or JAX.
• Experience with Vision Language Models (VLM), Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, perception, navigation and manipulation.
• Clean, readable, high-performance Python code.
• Doesn't need roadmaps. Ships.
• Low-ego, collaborative and eager to learn.
• Track record of success through personal projects, professional projects or academia.

Responsibilities

• Run pre-training, post-training and deploy state of the art models on large clusters.
• Generate and curate datasets (image-text, video-text), and build evaluators/benchmarks for perception, navigation and manipulation tasks.
• Develop the necessary tools and frameworks to facilitate data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex use cases.
• Manage research projects and communications with client research teams.

Skills

English proficiency

PyTorch

JAX

Education

PhD in Robotics or ML

Master's degree in related field

Tools

Isaac SIM

Job description

Mistral AI is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on robotics. You will design, train, and deploy SOTA robotics models (VLM, VLA) and apply them to diverse use cases.

You'll work cross-functionally with internal and external science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions. You will run pre-training, build datasets, develop tools, and collaborate with client teams to tackle complex use cases and deliver results.