Staff Vision-Language-Action Engineer for Driving AI

AI Chopping Block; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 311,000; Full time

Job summary

42dot, a mobility AI company and Hyundai Motor Group's Global Software Center, seeks a Staff VLA Engineer to advance autonomous driving research. You will prototype next-generation Vision-Language-Action architectures and explore multimodal foundation models for driving intelligence.

You will also contribute to world-model approaches, long-horizon planning, and agentic driving systems, collaborating across Silicon Valley and HQ Korea with strong software and research skills.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, ML, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, JAX).
• Solid understanding of foundation models, multimodal learning, or transformers.
• Experience training or fine-tuning large-scale models (vision, language, or multimodal).
• Strong software engineering skills and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to next-generation Vision-Language-Action architectures.
• Explore scalable multimodal foundation models for autonomous driving.
• Develop architectures with better generalization, reasoning, and long-horizon planning.
• Support large driving models that unify perception, planning, and action generation.
• Build world-model-based approaches for predictive driving intelligence.
• Work on future-state prediction, behavior forecasting, and counterfactual simulation.
• Contribute to long-horizon planning and reasoning for autonomous driving.
• Investigate driving agents with adaptive decision making in open-world environments.

Skills

Deep Learning

Multimodal learning

Transformer models

Large-scale training

Software engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

MS/PhD in CS/Robotics/ML/EE

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

42dot, a mobility AI company and Hyundai Motor Group's Global Software Center, seeks a Staff VLA Engineer to advance autonomous driving research. You will prototype next-generation Vision-Language-Action architectures and explore multimodal foundation models for driving intelligence.

You will also contribute to world-model approaches, long-horizon planning, and agentic driving systems, collaborating across Silicon Valley and HQ Korea with strong software and research skills.