Remote AI Research Engineer - Vision, VLM & Physical AI

Centific; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Job summary

Centific seeks an AI Research Engineer specializing in Vision AI, VLMs, and embodied/physical AI. You will translate cutting‑edge research into production systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world.

You will own high‑leverage experiments from paper to prototype to deployable module, collaborating with the Computer Vision and Robotics teams to push 2D/3D perception and multimodal reasoning. Candidates with publications in CV/ML/Robotics, strong PyTorch and Python skills, and

Qualifications

• Masters/PhD in CS/EE/Robotics (or related) with publications in CV/ML/Robotics.
• Strong PyTorch (or JAX) and Python; comfortable with CUDA profiling and mixed precision training.
• Demonstrated research in computer vision and at least one of: VLMs, embodied/physical AI, 3D perception.
• Proven ability to move from paper → code → ablation → result with rigorous experiment tracking.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 that combine perception, reasoning, simulation, and code‑generation to self‑check and self‑correct.

Skills

CV/ML research

Experimentation

Paper-to-code workflow

Strong PyTorch

Python

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/EE/Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

Python

CUDA

ROS2

TensorRT

Open3D

OpenCV

Ray

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Centific seeks an AI Research Engineer specializing in Vision AI, VLMs, and embodied/physical AI. You will translate cutting‑edge research into production systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world.

You will own high‑leverage experiments from paper to prototype to deployable module, collaborating with the Computer Vision and Robotics teams to push 2D/3D perception and multimodal reasoning. Candidates with publications in CV/ML/Robotics, strong PyTorch and Python skills, and