Research Scientist
About the role
Research Scientist role at Roboflow Labs focusing on computer vision benchmarks, failure analyses, and data-driven model evaluation to advance frontier vision-language, multi-modal, robotics, and coding models. Involves publishing benchmarks, extending RF100-VL, and coordinating with frontier labs to produce data and evaluation specs validated by real deployments.
Responsibilities
- Design datasets, evaluations, and RL environments that target measurable gaps in frontier vision-language, multi-modal, robotics, and coding models
- Run structured failure analyses on partner labs' models against Roboflow's real-world task distribution and write the remediation specs that say what data will close each gap
- Own the research behind new benchmarks that we publish.
- Validate data quality empirically — fine-tune, ablate, and measure so that every dataset we sell comes with evidence it works
- Contribute to Roboflow's open models (RF-DETR and successors) and represent Labs within the research community
- Work directly with research scientists at frontier labs as a technical peer, translating their model roadmaps into concrete data programs
Qualifications
- PhD or equivalent research experience in computer vision, multi-modal learning, machine learning, or a closely related field, with a track record of published work or shipped research
- Hands-on experience with post-training: fine-tuning, RL, evaluation design, or data curation for large models
- Strong engineering fundamentals — you write the code for your own experiments and can hand it to an engineer to productionize
- Clear written communication; you can explain a failure mode to a lab researcher and a data spec to an annotator
- Nice to have: experience at a frontier lab or as a data/evaluation partner to one; experience with vision-language models, robotics learning, or agentic coding evaluations
Skills
Benefits
- Generous stipends covering travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office.
- Up to 100% of your health insurance costs covered.
- Unlimited PTO - with an annual 2 week minimum.
- 12 weeks parental leave
About Roboflow
🖼️ Give your software the sense of sight.
Roboflow enables developers to make the world programmable. Use our tools to build better datasets (collect image, video / annotate), models (foundation and fine tuned small models), and deployments (self hosted, edge, APIs, SDKs) for computer vision. Over 250k developers, including those from over half the Fortune 100, build with our open source and hosted tools. Build with us: https://app.roboflow.com Hack with us: https://roboflow.slab.com/public/posts/roboflow-hackathons-external-u478m1iz Work with us: roboflow.com/careers
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