Multimodal Foundation Models Engineer for Robotics

The Bot Company; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bot Company in San Francisco is building a helpful robot for every home. We are a lean team of engineers, designers, and operators, shipping to hundreds of millions of users.

Our culture promotes radical ownership, rapid iteration, and direct responsibility across the stack. We are seeking an experienced ML engineer to work on multimodal foundation models that natively reason across text, image, video, and kinematics.

Qualifications

• Proficient coding in Python, C++, or Rust.
• Experience training and deploying large-scale multimodal models.
• Deep understanding of LLM-style pretraining and RL at scale.
• Able to manage and optimize large GPU-based experiments.

Responsibilities

• Build native multimodal policies where vision, language, and other modalities share a unified representation.
• Improve cross-modal reasoning beyond simple associations; ground visual physics in kinematic constraints.
• Own the training loop end-to-end: design, run, debug, and iterate large-scale training experiments.

Skills

Python

C++

Rust

Production MLLM Experience

Pretraining & RL Mastery

Infrastructure Fluency

Job description

The Bot Company in San Francisco is building a helpful robot for every home. We are a lean team of engineers, designers, and operators, shipping to hundreds of millions of users.

Our culture promotes radical ownership, rapid iteration, and direct responsibility across the stack. We are seeking an experienced ML engineer to work on multimodal foundation models that natively reason across text, image, video, and kinematics.