Staff Vision-Language-Action AI Engineer

42dot Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

42dot Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Staff VLA Engineer to push forward autonomous driving intelligence research.

You will turn research ideas into real progress by working with foundation models, multimodal learning, world models, and agentic reasoning. You will help design next‑generation Vision‑Language‑Action architectures, prototype scalable models, and apply them to perception, planning, and action.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in CS, robotics, ML, EE, or related field.
• Hands-on with PyTorch or JAX.
• Experience training or fine-tuning large-scale models.
• Strong software engineering and large-scale data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Research and prototype next-generation Vision-Language-Action architectures.
• Explore scalable multimodal foundation models for autonomous driving.
• Develop architectures with better generalization and planning.
• Support large driving models that unify perception, planning, and action.

Skills

Deep learning frameworks

Multimodal learning

Transformer architectures

Large-scale model training

Software engineering

Reading and implementing research

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, ML, EE, or related field

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Large-scale data pipelines

Job description

42dot Inc. in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Staff VLA Engineer to push forward autonomous driving intelligence research.

You will turn research ideas into real progress by working with foundation models, multimodal learning, world models, and agentic reasoning. You will help design next‑generation Vision‑Language‑Action architectures, prototype scalable models, and apply them to perception, planning, and action.