Robotics AI Research Engineer – VLM/VLA Focus

Mistral; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will work cross-functionally with internal and client teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions, build tooling for data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment, and ship reliable Python code. Experience in robotics perception, navigation, and simulation tools is a plus.

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

English

PyTorch/JAX

Robotics & ML

Python

VLM/VLA

Datasets/Benchmarks

Education

PhD or Masters

Job description

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

You will work cross-functionally with internal and client teams to deliver high-impact AI solutions, build tooling for data generation, model training, evaluation and deployment, and ship reliable Python code. Experience in robotics perception, navigation, and simulation tools is a plus.