Lead Research Scientist: Vision-Language & Robot Learning

XDOF; San Mateo; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

XDOF is seeking a Research Scientist to lead explorations at the intersection of vision-language models and robot learning. You will guide experiments to determine what data a model needs to reason about and act in the physical world, proposing structured annotations on egocentric video and prototyping them on our data.

The ideal candidate has a research background in representation learning with experience in vision, robotics, or language models.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, ML or related field from a top-tier program.
• 3–7 years of research or applied research experience in one or more: vision-language models, video understanding, robot learning, or generative modeling.
• Deep fluency in PyTorch; familiarity with large-scale training infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate representations bridging visual perception, language, and robot action conditioned on modalities.
• Collaborate with partner labs to define data requirements and connect data quality to policy performance.

Skills

Vision-language models

Video understanding

Robot learning

Generative modeling

Education

PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, ML

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

XDOF is seeking a Research Scientist to lead explorations at the intersection of vision-language models and robot learning. You will guide experiments to determine what data a model needs to reason about and act in the physical world, proposing structured annotations on egocentric video and prototyping them on our data.

The ideal candidate has a research background in representation learning with experience in vision, robotics, or language models.