Robotics Software Researcher: Physical AI & Real-World

Acceler8 Talent

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

19 hours ago
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Job summary

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Robotics Software Researcher for a frontier AI startup pushing the boundaries of multimodal AI, robotics, and real-time intelligent systems in the physical world.

You'll join a new team focused on robotics software, computer vision, VLMs and multimodal models, taking research from experiments through to production-ready systems. Strong Python and ML/deep learning skills are essential, with hands-on experience building embodied AI.

Qualifications

  • Strong robotics software and engineering fundamentals.
  • Experience with computer vision, VLMs or multimodal models.
  • Strong Python and ML/deep learning experience.
  • Ability to implement and experiment with cutting-edge research.
  • Experience building real-world robotic or embodied AI systems.

Responsibilities

  • Take research from experimentation through to real-world systems.
  • Collaborate with robotics, vision and ML teams to translate research into production-ready components.
  • Prototype and evaluate end-to-end pipelines for embodied AI applications.

Skills

Robotics software
Computer vision
VLMs/multimodal models
Python + ML/deep learning
Embodied AI systems

Job description

Acceler8 Talent is seeking a Robotics Software Researcher for a frontier AI startup pushing the boundaries of multimodal AI, robotics, and real-time intelligent systems in the physical world.

You'll join a new team focused on robotics software, computer vision, VLMs and multimodal models, taking research from experiments through to production-ready systems. Strong Python and ML/deep learning skills are essential, with hands-on experience building embodied AI.

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