Centific
AI Research Engineer: Vision AI / VLM / Physical AI-1
$180K–$240K
Remote Work( USA) · Full-time · Posted Sep 1, 2026
- Education
- Master’s or Ph.D. in CS/EE/Robotics or a related field.
About the job
Research and develop vision, multimodal, and embodied AI systems, taking experiments from research through prototype to deployment.
What you'll do
- Build and fine-tune models for visual perception and train or evaluate vision-language models for multimodal reasoning.
- Prototype perception-driven robotics policies and integrate them with planners and task workflows.
- Curate datasets, evaluate experiments, and package research as reliable, deployable services.
What they ask for
- Master’s or Ph.D. in CS/EE/Robotics or a related field; actively publishing in CV/ML/Robotics venues.
- Strong PyTorch (or JAX) and Python skills, including CUDA profiling and mixed-precision training.
- Demonstrated computer vision research and experience in at least one of VLMs, embodied/physical AI, or 3D perception.
- Ability to carry out rigorous, tracked experiments from paper to code, ablation, and result.
Nice to have
- Experience with video models, diffusion or 3D GS/NeRF pipelines, or SLAM/scene reconstruction.
- Familiarity with ROS2, DeepStream/TAO, or edge inference optimization.
Pay
$180,000-$240,000 USD base salary
Tools
PyTorch, JAX, Python, CUDA, Kubernetes, Docker, Ray, FastAPI
AI focus
Research and production development of computer vision, vision-language models, 3D perception, and embodied/physical AI for perception, multimodal reasoning, and robotics.
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