Rhoda AI
Research Member of Technical Staff- Applied Research
$200K–$300K
Mountain View · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 18, 2026
About the job
Adapts Rhoda AI’s foundation world models to customer applications, evaluates their performance in real-world settings, and feeds deployment insights back into foundational research.
What you'll do
- Work with customers and partners to translate application needs into model adaptation strategies.
- Fine-tune models, run targeted experiments, and build application-specific evaluation benchmarks.
- Identify capability gaps and collaborate with core research teams to improve models.
What they ask for
- Strong ML research and engineering skills, including hands-on experience fine-tuning or adapting large models.
- Solid understanding of ML pipelines, including pre-training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and deployment.
- Experience in a customer-facing, applied research, or solutions engineering role.
- Ability to translate customer requirements into technical implementation and communicate findings to non-technical audiences.
Nice to have
- Experience adapting foundation models such as LLMs, VLMs, or policy models; robot deployments or sim-to-real transfer.
- Familiarity with relevant industries or inference optimization and runtime constraints.
Pay
$200K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
ML, LLMs, VLMs
AI focus
Fine-tuning and adapting foundation world models for domain-specific robotics tasks, evaluating model behavior, and addressing gaps revealed by customer deployments.
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