Lead AI Research Scientist – Robotics & Vision-Language AI

Jobgether; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (US-based team)

Contract-based employment

Hybrid option in New Delhi (subject to

Job summary

Jobgether invites applications for Lead AI Research Scientist (Robotics) to drive the next generation of Physical AI and Vision-Language-Action models for robotics. You will lead research initiatives spanning multimodal AI, foundation models, CV, and robotic learning, turning research into practical robotic capabilities.

The role involves mentoring researchers, guiding experiments, and collaborating across robotics control and embedded systems teams to deliver scalable AI solutions for

Qualifications

• Requires Masters or Ph.D. in CS/AI/Robotics or related field.
• At least 4 years of experience in multimodal AI, foundation models, or robotic learning.
• Strong experience in training and fine-tuning large multimodal models and ViTs.
• Proficiency in Python and DL frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
• Experience with VLMs or VLA architectures and open-weight VLA models.

Responsibilities

• Lead research, development, and adaptation of Vision-Language-Action models for robotics.
• Fine-tune open-weight VLA models for navigation and manipulation.
• Develop multimodal representations linking vision, language, and action.
• Design action-tokenization and spatial waypoint generation methods.
• Build parameter-efficient fine-tuning pipelines (LoRA, PEFT).
• Leverage VLMs, ViTs, and large multimodal models for robotics perception.
• Integrate AI perception into robotic decision-making systems.
• Collaborate with control and embedded teams to translate AI outputs into actions.
• Lead research planning, experiments, and performance improvements.
• Mentor researchers and engineers through model adaptation and deployment.

Skills

Multimodal AI

Vision-Language Models

Robotics

Python

PyTorch

JAX

Hugging Face tools

Education

PhD in Computer Science / AI / Robotics

M.S. in Computer Science / AI

Tools

OpenVLA

Octo

π0

Job description

Jobgether invites applications for Lead AI Research Scientist (Robotics) to drive the next generation of Physical AI and Vision-Language-Action models for robotics. You will lead research initiatives spanning multimodal AI, foundation models, CV, and robotic learning, turning research into practical robotic capabilities.

The role involves mentoring researchers, guiding experiments, and collaborating across robotics control and embedded systems teams to deliver scalable AI solutions for