Physical AI Research Engineer

Oscar

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 220,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Medical coverage

Job summary

Oscar is hiring a full-time AI Research Engineer for the Computer Vision team in a hybrid role in San Jose, CA. You will work on 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, and visual AI to advance AI-driven robotics using PyTorch, Python, and CUDA.

The ideal candidate has strong experience in 3D perception, multimodal grounding, or temporal reasoning, and may bring knowledge of video models. Equity and medical coverage are among the benefits.

Qualifications

  • Masters or Ph.D in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field.
  • Building physical AI applications at scale from the ground up.
  • Strong experience with Computer Vision, Python, PyTorch, CUDA, GPUs.
  • Experience with multimodal grounding or temporal reasoning.
  • 3D and video model experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Join the Computer Vision team to advance AI-driven robotics with 3D reconstruction and scene understanding.
  • Work on visual AI architectures and cutting-edge frameworks to prototype and evaluate new models.
  • Collaborate across research and engineering to bring physical AI applications to production.

Skills

PyTorch
Python
CUDA
3D perception
Computer Vision
GPUs
Temporal reasoning
Multimodal grounding

Education

Masters or Ph.D in Computer Science or Robotics

Tools

VGG-T

Job description

A profitable startup is hiring an AI Research Engineer for a full-time role. You'll join the Computer Vision team, working on 3D reconstruction, scene understanding, and visual AI to advance AI-driven robotics. This role provides the opportunity to work with cutting-edge architectures like VGG-T and state-of-the-art tools and frameworks.

The ideal candidate has strong experience with PyTorch, Python, CUDA, physical AI, video models, and 3D perception, along with experience in multimodal grounding or temporal reasoning.

This role is hybrid in San Jose, CA and offers full benefits.

Experience
  • Masters or Ph.D in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field
  • Building physical AI applications at scale from the ground up
  • Strong experience with Computer Vision, Python, PyTorch, CUDA, GPUs
  • Experience with multimodal grounding or temporal reasoning
  • 3D and video model experience is a plus
  • Equity
  • $401k matching
  • Medical coverage
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