Senior Vision-Language AI Engineer — Multimodal VLMs

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 357,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior vision-language model engineer to design and build agentic data workflows for Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, and Medical applications. You will collaborate with researchers to prototype models (VLMs/VLAs) and productize data pipelines for scalable AI development.

You will lead data curation and labeling strategies, optimize training on real-world datasets, and contribute to NVIDIA Cosmos Dataset Search and other platforms.

Qualifications

• PhD with 4+ years, MS with 6+ years, or BS with 8+ years in Computer Science/Engineering or related field.
• Strong background in modern deep learning, including transformer-based architectures and multimodal VLM/VLA or foundation models.
• Experience training and deploying deep learning models on real-world datasets, including preprocessing, distributed training, evaluation, and debugging.
• Proficient in Python and at least one deep learning framework.
• Up-to-date with image and video search in autonomous vehicles, healthcare, robotics, or related physical AI fields.
• Familiar with agentic AI workflows across the full applied research lifecycle and prototyping to production integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop prototypes of models such as VLMs and VLAs for video search and understanding.
• Design agentic data workflows for data discovery, labeling, evaluation, and retraining to speed development.
• Build and curate high-quality multimodal datasets for autonomous driving, robotics, and healthcare use cases.
• Collaborate with research, model development, performance, and product teams.
• Contribute to NVIDIA Cosmos Dataset Search and related NVIDIA platforms.

Skills

Deep learning

Transformer architectures

Video modeling

Multimodal models

Python

Research communication

Education

PhD

MS

BS

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is seeking a senior vision-language model engineer to design and build agentic data workflows for Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, and Medical applications. You will collaborate with researchers to prototype models (VLMs/VLAs) and productize data pipelines for scalable AI development.

You will lead data curation and labeling strategies, optimize training on real-world datasets, and contribute to NVIDIA Cosmos Dataset Search and other platforms.