AI Research Intern - Physical AI

Centific Global Solutions, Inc.; United States; À distance; USD 52 000 - 72 000; Temps partiel

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Rate: $45 Per Hour

Résumé du poste

Centific Global Solutions, Inc. is seeking an AI Research Intern to push the frontier of Vision AI, VLMs, and embodied intelligence. You will translate cutting-edge research into production-ready modules and contribute to 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, and multimodal reasoning.

The role targets candidates with strong PyTorch/Python skills, research track records, and a passion for building scalable AI systems in a fast-paced lab environment.

Qualifications

• Masters/Ph.D in CS/EE/Robotics (or related).
• Strong PyTorch (or JAX) and Python; comfort with CUDA profiling.
• Proven research in CV/ML/Robotics with publications.

Responsabilités

• Advance Visual Perception research and build prototypes for 2D/3D detection, tracking, segmentation, and scene understanding.
• Develop multimodal vision–language models and retrieval-augmented agentic loops.
• Prototype physical AI policies and integrate with planners for perception‑in‑loop tasks.

Connaissances

Python

PyTorch

JAX

CUDA profiling

Experiment tracking

Formation

Masters/Ph.D in CS/EE/Robotics

Outils

ROS2

TensorRT

TAO

ONNX

Description du poste

About Centific

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets—to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

About Job

AI Research Intern - Vision AI / VLM / Physical AI Build the Future of Perception & Embodied Intelligence Are you pushing the frontier of computer vision, multimodal large models, and embodied/physical AI—and have the publications to show it? Join us to translate cutting‑research into production systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world.

The Mission

We are building state of‑ t‑heart Vision AI across 2D/3D perception, egocentric/360° understanding, and multimodal reasoning. As an AI Research Engineer, you will own high‑ ‑leverage experiments from paper → prototype → deployable module in our platform. We are seeking passionate Engineersto join our cutting‑edge labs, you could be part of : Computer Vision team as a Research Engineer and dive into the world of 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, and visual AI. You’ll explore innovative techniques like those used to transform real‑world spaces into immersive 3D models—such as the 3D Reconstruction projects —and work with cutting‑edge architectures like VGG-T (Visual Geometry Grounded Transformers), known for advancing deep learning in vision tasks. This role is perfect for those excited to develop AI systems that interpret, reconstruct, and interact with the visual world, using state‑of-the‑art tools and methodologies.

What You’ll Do

• Advance Visual Perception: Build and fine‑tune models for detection, tracking, segmentation (2D/3D), pose & activity recognition, and scene understanding (incl. 360° and multi‑view).
• Multimodal Reasoning with VLMs: Train/evaluate vision–language models (VLMs) for grounding, dense captioning, temporal QA, and tooluse; design retrieval‑ augmented and agentic loops for perception‑ action‑tasks.
• Physical AI & Embodiment: Prototype perception‑in‑the‑loop policies that close the gap from pixels to actions (simulation + real data). Integrate with planners and task graphs for manipulation, navigation, or safety workflows.
• Data & Evaluation at Scale: Curate datasets, author high‑signal evaluation protocols/KPIs, and run ablations that make results irreproducible impossible.
• Systems & Deployment: Package research into reliable services on a modern stack (Kubernetes, Docker, Ray, FastAPI), with profiling, telemetry, and CI for reproducible science.
• Agentic Workflows: Orchestrate multi‑agent pipelines (e.g., ‑LangGraphstyle graphs) that combine perception, reasoning, simulation, and ‑codeg eneration to ‑selfc heck and ‑selfcorrect‑.

Example Problems You Might Tackle

• Long horizon‑ video understanding (events, activities, causality) from egocentric or 360° video.
• 3D scene grounding: linking language queries to objects, affordances, and trajectories.
• Fast, privacy preserving perception for ‑ondevice‑ or edge inference.
• Robust multi‑modal evaluation: temporal consistency, open‑set detection, uncertainty.
• Vision conditioned‑ policy evaluation in sim (Isaac/MuJoCo) with sim2real stress tests.

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters/Ph.D in CS/EE/Robotics (or related), actively publishing in CV/ML/Robotics (e.g., CVPR/ICCV/ECCV, NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR, CoRL/RSS).
• Strong PyTorch (or JAX) and Python; comfort with CUDA profiling and mixed precision‑ training.
• Demonstrated research in computer vision and at least one of: VLMs (e.g., LLaVA style, video‑ language‑ models), embodied/physical AI, 3D perception.
• Proven ability to move from paper → code → ablation → result with rigorous experiment tracking.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with video models (e.g., TimeSFormer/MViT/VideoMAE), diffusion or 3D GS/NeRF pipelines, or SLAM/scene reconstruction.
• Prior work on multimodal grounding (referring expressions, spatial language, affordances) or temporal reasoning.
• Familiarity with ROS2, DeepStream/TAO, or edge inference optimizations (TensorRT, ONNX).
• Scalable training: Ray, distributed data loaders, sharded checkpoints.
• Strong software craft: testing, linting, profiling, containers, and reproducibility.
• Public code artifacts (GitHub) and first‑author publications or strong open source‑ impact.

Our Stack (you’ll touch a subset)

• Modeling: PyTorch, torchvision/lightning, Hugging Face, OpenMMLab, xFormers
• Perception: YOLO/Detectron/MMDet, SAM/Mask2Former, CLIP‑style backbones, optical flow
• VLM / LLM: Vision encoders + LLMs, RAG for video, toolformer‑/agent loops
• 3D / Sim: Open3D, PyTorch3D, Isaac/MuJoCo, COLMAP/SLAM, NeRF/3DGS
• Systems: Python, FastAPI, Ray, Kubernetes, Docker, Triton/TensorRT, Weights & Biases
• Pipelines: LangGraph‑like orchestration, data versioning, artifact stores

What Success Looks Like

• A publishable or open‑sourced outcome (with company approval) or a production‑ready module that measurably moves a product KPI (latency, accuracy, robustness).
• Clean, reproducible code with documented ablations and an evaluation report that a teammate can rerun end‑to‑end.
• A demo that clearly communicates capabilities, limits, and next steps.

Rate: $45 Per Hour

Centific is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Join a growing company using technology to help tackle enterprises’ toughest challenges.