Senior AI Engineer, Multimodal & Autonomous Robotics

Scubyt Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Scubyt Inc in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior or Staff AI Engineer to build multimodal AI models powering autonomous robotic platforms. You will own end-to-end development from research to production deployment in a fast-moving environment.

You will work at the intersection of foundation models, agentic AI, reinforcement learning, simulation, and robotics, collaborating with robotics and software teams to deliver reliable, real-world AI systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience developing and deploying AI/ML systems.
• 2+ years of experience with multimodal AI, foundation models, or agentic systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch.
• Experience training or fine-tuning large-scale deep learning models.
• Experience with distributed training and modern ML infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of model evaluation, experimentation, and data preparation.
• Experience with modern AI training techniques (SFT, DPO, RL).
• Ability to take an AI concept from experimentation through production deployment.
• Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve multimodal AI models for autonomous robotic applications.
• Experiment with model architectures, training approaches, datasets, and evaluation techniques.
• Build scalable pipelines for training and fine-tuning large AI models.
• Develop AI capabilities involving reasoning, memory, planning, communication, and tool usage.
• Design evaluation frameworks, benchmarks, and metrics to measure model performance.
• Create simulation and testing environments for reinforcement learning and synthetic data generation.
• Work with real-world and simulated datasets to improve model capabilities.
• Translate research concepts into reliable, production-ready AI systems.
• Collaborate with robotics, software, and systems engineers to integrate AI into autonomous platforms.
• Participate in testing and field deployments to evaluate system performance.
• Help shape technical direction, engineering practices, and development processes as the team grows.

Skills

AI/ML systems development

Multimodal AI / agentic systems

Python programming

PyTorch

Model training & fine-tuning

Distributed training infra

Experimentation & evaluation

Production deployment

SFT / DPO / RL concepts

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in a relevant technical field

Tools

PyTorch ecosystem

Job description

Scubyt Inc in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior or Staff AI Engineer to build multimodal AI models powering autonomous robotic platforms. You will own end-to-end development from research to production deployment in a fast-moving environment.

You will work at the intersection of foundation models, agentic AI, reinforcement learning, simulation, and robotics, collaborating with robotics and software teams to deliver reliable, real-world AI systems.