Vision-Language Robotics Research Scientist

XDOF; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

XDOF, based in California, is hiring a Research Scientist to advance data-centric foundations for embodied AI. You will lead exploratory work on what data a model needs to reason about and act in the physical world, prototyping annotated egocentric video and running experiments that demonstrate value.

The ideal candidate has a PhD in CS/ML/Robotics and 3–7 years of research or applied experience in vision-language models, video understanding, or robot learning, with deep PyTorch fluency and

Qualifications

• PhD in CS, robotics, ML from a top-tier program.
• 3–7 years of research or applied research in vision-language models, video understanding, robot learning, or generative modeling.
• Deep fluency in PyTorch and experience with large-scale distributed training and large batch workflows.
• Publications or demonstrated impact in VLMs/VLAs, video representation learning, imitation learning, or closely related areas.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to design scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate representations bridging visual perception, language, and robot action.
• Collaborate with partner labs to define data requirements and close the loop between data quality and downstream policy performance.

Skills

Vision-language models

Robot learning

PyTorch

Distributed training

Large-scale training

Imitation learning

Education

PhD in CS/ML/Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

XDOF, based in California, is hiring a Research Scientist to advance data-centric foundations for embodied AI. You will lead exploratory work on what data a model needs to reason about and act in the physical world, prototyping annotated egocentric video and running experiments that demonstrate value.

The ideal candidate has a PhD in CS/ML/Robotics and 3–7 years of research or applied experience in vision-language models, video understanding, or robot learning, with deep PyTorch fluency and