Robotics AI Research Engineer - VLM/VLA Specialist

Roboticsconnected; Paris; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; 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 be fluent in English, proficient in PyTorch or JAX, and experienced with VLM/VLA, perception, navigation and manipulation, and simulation tools such as Isaac SIM.

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, simulation tools (e.g. Isaac SIM).
• 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

Robotics

Vision-Language Models

Communication

Collaboration

Education

PhD in Robotics

Master in Robotics

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 be fluent in English, proficient in PyTorch or JAX, and experienced with VLM/VLA, perception, navigation and manipulation, and simulation tools such as Isaac SIM.