Robotics AI Research Engineer — VLM/VLA, Perception & Navigation

Mistral; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mistral is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on robotics to design, train, and deploy SOTA robotics models, including VLM and VLA for navigation and manipulation. You will collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions across industries.

As part of a distributed, fast-moving group, you will own parts of the research-to-production cycle, write clean Python, and ship robust tooling and benchmarks that advance perception, navigation, and

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

Python

PyTorch/JAX

Vision-Language Models

Navigation

Manipulation

Simulation tools

Clean code

English fluency

Education

PhD/Master in Robotics or ML

Tools

Isaac SIM

Job description

Mistral is seeking Applied Scientists and Research Engineers focused on robotics to design, train, and deploy SOTA robotics models, including VLM and VLA for navigation and manipulation. You will collaborate with internal and external teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions across industries.

As part of a distributed, fast-moving group, you will own parts of the research-to-production cycle, write clean Python, and ship robust tooling and benchmarks that advance perception, navigation, and