Multimodal AI Research Engineer for Robotics and Infra

Acceler8 Talent; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent in Mountain View, CA seeks a Research Engineer to advance multimodal AI systems for an observability platform powering critical infrastructure, including data centers and energy facilities.

You will build VLMs, multimodal agents, and scalable reasoning systems, collaborating with robotics engineers to deploy production-grade solutions in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with Vision Language Models (VLMs), multimodal foundation models, or Vision Language Action (VLA) systems.
• Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, or applied AI research.
• Experience with LLMs, agentic systems, retrieval, or multimodal reasoning.
• Exposure to computer vision, perception, robotics, autonomy, or embodied AI is highly desirable.
• Strong software engineering skills to build production-grade AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Build multimodal AI systems combining language models, vision models, and agentic reasoning.
• Develop VLMs and multimodal agents capable of understanding, analyzing, and acting on complex real-world data.
• Design systems that allow users to interact naturally with fleets of autonomous robots.
• Work on large-scale reasoning systems that analyze historical incidents, identify faults, and recommend corrective actions.
• Build infrastructure for grounding language models in visual observations from drones and robotic platforms.
• Develop retrieval, memory, and decision-making systems for mission-critical environments.
• Collaborate with robotics and autonomy engineers to bridge perception, reasoning, and execution.
• Help shape the future architecture of a rapidly evolving AI platform in the physical world.

Skills

VLMs

Multimodal models

LLMs

Agentic systems

Deep learning

Job description

Acceler8 Talent in Mountain View, CA seeks a Research Engineer to advance multimodal AI systems for an observability platform powering critical infrastructure, including data centers and energy facilities.

You will build VLMs, multimodal agents, and scalable reasoning systems, collaborating with robotics engineers to deploy production-grade solutions in a fast-moving startup environment.