VLMs Jobs

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of shipping robots with human-level intelligence. These robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in both home and commercial markets. This role will focus on developing the perception systems for these robots, encompassing onboard computer vision, localization, visuomotor policies, and offline data annotation.

$200k - $400k

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to focus on AI Inference Performance, advancing innovative LLM and VLM inference on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. This hands-on role involves pushing workloads to practical performance limits, delivering measurable gains in latency, throughput, efficiency, and scale. You will translate performance models and profiler data into working code, collaborating with various teams and contributing improvements to open-source inference engines. Your work will directly impact production deployments and help shape future NVIDIA platforms.

$184k - $357k

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform to support developers and enterprises in the global AI economy, from data and model training through to production deployment. The Nebius Token Factory is seeking scientists to tackle frontier LLM and VLM inference bottlenecks by turning them into research questions, conducting rigorous experiments, and translating findings into production capabilities. You will own focused research and optimization projects, write strong code, and produce prototypes, publications, and technical artifacts for engineers to build upon. Your research will cover areas like quantization, distillation, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization, and model/runtime co-optimization, alongside inference engines and distributed inference architectures. You will evaluate trade-offs across model quality, latency, throughput, memory footprint, and cost per token, and collaborate with engineering teams to bring promising results into production.

$195k - $262k

Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform to support developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Applied AI team, you will own model and endpoint optimization from model artifacts through production deployment. Your work will span model internals, quantization, model compression, speculative decoding, KV-cache optimization, inference engines, and serving architecture to improve latency, throughput, memory efficiency, GPU utilization, and cost per token while preserving model quality and reliability. You will collaborate with kernel and platform engineers to investigate serving problems, compare configurations, and resolve performance and quality regressions, validating improvements through reproducible benchmarks and safe production rollouts.

$195k - $262k

NVIDIA is seeking a creative and expert Systems Engineer to join its Automotive Vehicles team and contribute to the expansion of NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle solutions. This role involves a focused effort on productizing groundbreaking perception solutions that will redefine transportation and the self-driving car industry. You will collaborate with a global team of systems engineers, AI applied researchers, and software engineers to build world-class perception, mapping, and localization solutions, ensuring adherence to all NVIDIA and automotive standards and guidelines. The work is described as exciting, fun, and relevant, offering an opportunity to make a lasting impact.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is building GeForce G-Assist, an on-device AI assistant that integrates Small Language Models (SLMs), retrieval systems, and hybrid cloud capabilities for responsive, context-aware assistance within the GeForce ecosystem. This role involves close collaboration across engineering and product teams to ensure G-Assist performs reliably in real-world scenarios. The focus is on production model behavior rather than just benchmarks, with an emphasis on accuracy, robustness, and conversational reliability. The team works with SLM and VLM architectures, hybrid cloud/local model architectures, and optimizes local inference for performance.

$152k - $288k

NVIDIA Research's Human Performance and Experience (HPX) team is seeking passionate individuals for a PhD Research Intern position focused on cross-disciplinary vision science between humans and machines. This role involves collaborating with research scientists, engineers, and product engineers to address real-world problems at the intersection of computer vision, human vision science, and robotic vision. The internship offers an opportunity to contribute to AI innovation and shape the future of human-AI interaction.

$0k - $0k

NVIDIA is seeking an exceptional computer vision and deep learning intern researcher for its spatial intelligence lab. The team focuses on research that pushes boundaries and has real-world impact. Interns will engage in research, design, and implementation of methods related to key topics such as generative AI for videos, reconstruction, simulation, video understanding, policy learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language models. A significant outcome of the internship is the publication of original research, alongside collaboration with internal and external researchers.

$0k - $0k

NVIDIA is seeking exceptional engineers to design, implement, and deploy cutting-edge end-to-end autonomous driving systems. This role focuses on AI 2.0, leveraging LLMs, VLMs, and VLAs to enhance reasoning, planning, and interactivity in autonomous vehicles and robotics. You will be instrumental in building the future of autonomy by developing and integrating advanced AI models into mass-production vehicles.

$184k - $357k

NVIDIA is seeking a System Software Engineer specializing in Agentic Retrieval to join our team at the forefront of the AI revolution. You will develop pipelines for indexing and querying multi-modal content, working with Generative AI, LLM, VLLM, and Agentic Retrieval technologies on our innovative hardware and software platforms. This role is crucial for accelerating containerized pipelines for high-quality multi-modal datasets and enhancing retrieval efficacy. You will focus on developing efficient, scalable systems for data processing, deduplication, filtering, and classification for tailored models, with an emphasis on iterative testing and improvement in system cost, speed, and accuracy through micro-optimization, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and applying new research.

$184k - $357k

Eventual is building data curation for Physical AI, processing petabyte-scale video and sensor data to extract signals about how hands and objects interact, temporal events, and clip reliability for training frontier models. We are a small, well-backed team from leading tech companies, aiming to revolutionize how Physical AI models are trained by providing reliable, curated datasets derived from vast amounts of video footage. This role is based in our SF Mission District office, with a 4-day work week. As Technical Lead, Multimodal Research, you will drive the technical vision for Eventual's understanding of video data. You will own the strategy for selecting, prototyping, and deploying models and representations at scale, ensuring they meet rigorous evaluation standards and cost-efficiency targets. This is a senior individual contributor role focused on setting research direction and making key architectural decisions, while remaining hands-on with research and experimentation.

$150k - $300k

The Axion Data team at Applied Intuition is building the data engine to train perception models. This role involves working on both the edge application that runs perception stacks and the cloud data engine that ingests video data for model improvement. The goal is to optimize model performance on edge and cloud, and build MLOps tooling for pipeline visibility. This position offers an opportunity to own and impact a new product team within a rapidly growing company.

$200k - $275k

Applied Intuition is seeking a Software Engineer to join their team and contribute to powering the future of physical AI. This role involves constructing optimized data pipelines for ML models and evolving the data engine architecture to scale high-fidelity labels, reduce annotation costs, and accelerate ML iteration cycles. You will also integrate foundation models like LLMs and VLMs to automate and enhance labeling, quality assurance, and data discovery, while leveraging software-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop testing. Additionally, you will interact with customers to understand their use cases and triage needs during field events.

$200k - $275k

We are seeking a skilled engineer to join our Autonomous Vehicles team, focusing on the L3/L4 autonomous-driving solution. You will be instrumental in developing a comprehensive, learned 3D/4D world model by fusing navigation, ego-motion, perception, and sensor signals. This role involves close collaboration with perception, prediction, planning, and simulation teams to create a world representation that is complete, temporally consistent, uncertainty-aware, and robust for challenging driving scenarios. Our vision is to develop a shared multimodal scene representation that supports road understanding, 3D object perception, motion prediction, and planning, aiming to achieve human-level AI for navigation in unconstrained environments.

Eventual is building data curation for Physical AI, processing petabyte-scale video and sensor data to extract crucial signals for training frontier AI models. The company's mission is to empower Physical AI and robotics teams to instantly find, curate, and stream the data they need. As a Software Engineer on the Data Systems team, you will build key capabilities for a high-throughput data engine over petabytes of video, lidar, and telemetry data, working directly on the architecture for real-time indexing, distributed storage/compute, and efficient dataloading to GPUs. This role offers high ownership across the stack in an agile, fast-paced startup environment.

$150k - $200k