VLM Researcher
San Francisco, CA$150k - $250kFull-timePosted 2d ago
About the role
Nori Robotics (YC S26) is hiring a VLM Researcher to own research and model training for vision-language models that enable robots to interpret surroundings and interact with people, events, space, and ongoing interactions from video, audio, and sensor data.
Responsibilities
- Develop and fine-tune vision-language models for temporal understanding, spatial grounding, and human interaction.
- Define learning objectives, dataset specifications, and experiments with the multimodal engineer who handles data preparation and QA/QC.
- Evaluate scene understanding, hallucinations, temporal consistency, and response relevance on held-out data and real-world sessions.
- Collaborate with the LLM researcher and harness engineer to integrate structured observations and model responses into robots and products.
Qualifications
- Research experience training vision-language or video models, with Python and PyTorch or JAX and practical distributed-training experience.
- Demonstrated work in temporal or spatial grounding, with reproducible experiments and rigorous evaluation of model failures and generalization.
Skills
Required:Vision-language modelingPythonPyTorch or JAXMultimodal data handling
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Nori
Sub-1500$ robot anyone can program
We manufacture humanoid robots in San Francisco.
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