Robotics AI Research Scientist – Vision & World Models

Embedding VC; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options/equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

RoboForce is an AI robotics company building Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The team develops vision-language models and world models to enable safe, real-world robot deployment.

The role focuses on designing and deploying multi-modal perception, planning, and action policies, advancing foundation models, and delivering production-grade solutions on RoboForce platforms. Office-based collaboration required.

Qualifications

• PhD in Machine Learning, Robotics, or related field, or Master's with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX).
• Expertise in large foundation models (VLM, VLA, etc.).
• Strong understanding of world model architectures and action-conditioned generative modeling for robot learning.
• Decent understanding of multimodal models, modern ML architectures (transformers, diffusion models, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy vision-language(-action) models (VLM/VLA) for contextual understanding and generalized robot action policies.
• Develop and train world models for action-conditioned prediction, long-horizon planning, and environment simulation.
• Research approaches to improve world model fidelity using multi-modal inputs including vision, language, proprioception, and spatial representations.
• Develop foundation models with spatial reasoning capabilities to achieve high-precision robotic actions.
• Integrate multi-modal data sources (vision, language, speech, etc.) to enable natural human-robot communication.
• Optimize and deploy models as production-grade solutions on RoboForce robotic platforms.
• Requires 5 days/week in-office collaboration with the teams.

Skills

Python

Deep learning

Vision-Language Models

World models

Multi-modal ML

Education

PhD in ML/Robotics or related, or Master's with 4+ years

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorRT

CUDA

Job description

RoboForce is an AI robotics company building Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The team develops vision-language models and world models to enable safe, real-world robot deployment.

The role focuses on designing and deploying multi-modal perception, planning, and action policies, advancing foundation models, and delivering production-grade solutions on RoboForce platforms. Office-based collaboration required.