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Posted 15 Oct 2026

Lead Physical AI / VLA Research Scientist

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Employment
Full time
Team
Data Science & Analytics
Posted
15 Oct 2026

About the role

Responsibilities:

  • Adapt open-weight foundation models (OpenVLA, Octo, 0) for multi-modal quadruped navigation and behavioral manipulation.
  • Formulate multi-modal tokenization schemes that translate visual observations and natural language instructions into high-level spatial waypoints and behavior tokens.
  • Direct parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT/LoRA/OFT) pipelines on downstream surveillance datasets.
  • Architect the multi-task vision trunk incorporating proprietary security analytics (threat detection, facial recognition) into the VLA representation layer.


Requirements:

  • Ph. D. or master's in computer science, artificial intelligence, or robotics.
  • Minimum 4 years of experience training Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), Vision Transformers (ViT), or robotic imitation learning policies.
  • Technical Strengths: PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, OpenVLA, Octo, Vision Transformers (ViT), Cross-embodiment data (Open X-Embodiment).

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