Research Engineer: Multimodal AI & Robotics

Acceler8 Talent; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Acceler8 Talent in Mountain View, CA seeks a Research Engineer to advance multimodal AI systems, combining language models, vision, and agentic reasoning for real-world infrastructure. This role focuses on building scalable, production-grade AI platforms operating with autonomous robots across critical environments.

You will collaborate with robotics and autonomy engineers to ground language models in visual observations, develop memory and decision-making for mission-critical tasks, and drive

Qualifications

• Experience with Vision Language Models, multimodal foundation models, or Vision Language Action 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.
• Experience taking research concepts into real-world applications.
• Ability to thrive in highly autonomous, fast-moving startup environments.

Responsibilities

• This role will build multimodal AI systems combining language models, vision models, and agentic reasoning.
• Develop VLMs and multimodal agents capable of understanding and acting on complex real-world data.
• Design systems for interacting with fleets of autonomous robots.
• Work on large-scale reasoning systems that analyze incidents, identify faults, and recommend actions.
• Build infrastructure grounding language models in visual observations from drones and robots.
• Develop retrieval, memory, and decision-making 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.

Skills

VLMs

Multimodal models

LLMs

Agentic systems

Retrieval

Reasoning

Robotics

Software engineering

Startup environment

Tools

Python

PyTorch

ROS

ML infra

Job description

Acceler8 Talent in Mountain View, CA seeks a Research Engineer to advance multimodal AI systems, combining language models, vision, and agentic reasoning for real-world infrastructure. This role focuses on building scalable, production-grade AI platforms operating with autonomous robots across critical environments.

You will collaborate with robotics and autonomy engineers to ground language models in visual observations, develop memory and decision-making for mission-critical tasks, and drive