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Senior ML Research Scientist, VLM/VLA

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about 6 hours ago
Mountain View, CA, USA
Senior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$184k - $276k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Develop and advance VLA models for onboard Behavior & Planning in autonomous driving systems.
  • Build multimodal models that improve safe decision-making in complex driving scenarios.
  • Research and apply state-of-the-art approaches in vision-language-action modeling.
  • Train, fine-tune, and evaluate large-scale VLAs using real-world driving data.
  • Optimize models for onboard deployment, focusing on efficiency and performance.
  • Collaborate with teams to define training, evaluation, and deployment requirements.
  • Design evaluation methodologies for multimodal models in safety-critical applications.
  • Contribute to scalable model and data pipelines for rapid experimentation.

Requirements

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Robotics, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of industry or research experience in machine learning.
  • Strong experience with vision-language models and multimodal foundation models.
  • Hands-on experience with large-scale model training and evaluation.
  • Familiarity with Vision Transformers and large language models.
  • Experience optimizing models for deployment under compute constraints.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with deep learning frameworks.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Tech Stack

C++PythonPyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

AI & MLData Science