multimodal foundation models Jobs

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Air Dominance & Strike team develops aerial and multi-domain robotic systems, including unmanned fighter jets and cruise missiles, and the Lattice for Mission Autonomy software platform. We are seeking an AI Research Scientist to be a founding ML expert, designing, fine-tuning, and deploying generative AI, LLMs, and agentic systems for our air-dominance platforms. This is a highly applied research role focused on making state-of-the-art LLM models smaller, faster, and smarter, optimizing them for both offboard systems and power-constrained edge hardware. As an early member, you will have significant autonomy to set technical direction, design data collection strategies, and influence multi-agent autonomy deployment.

$220k - $292k

As a Research Scientist on the Vision Language Model (VLM) team, you will be instrumental in advancing state-of-the-art multimodal foundation models. This role focuses on integrating visual understanding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities into large-scale VLM systems. You will engage in research and development covering model architectures, data strategies for pre-training and post-training, and evaluation benchmarks. The position blends advanced research with practical engineering, involving large-scale data processing, distributed training systems, and reinforcement learning for multimodal reasoning and agent development.

$150k - $450k