Robotics Research Engineer: VLM/VLA AI Navigation

Mistral; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; 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 and apply them to diverse use cases.

You will work cross-functionally with internal and external science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions. You will design datasets, tooling, and pipelines, and contribute to model evaluation, deployment, and real-world integration across teams.

Qualifications

• Fluent 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

PyTorch

JAX

Vision-Language Models

Vision-Language-Action (VLA)

Robotics perception

Navigation & manipulation

Python

English communication

Education

PhD / Master in Robotics or Machine Learning

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 and apply them to diverse use cases.

You will work cross-functionally with internal and external science, engineering, and product teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions. You will design datasets, tooling, and pipelines, and contribute to model evaluation, deployment, and real-world integration across teams.