RoboForce
Senior / Staff AI Research Scientist, Foundation Models
Milpitas, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
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$16,195 more — $216,195 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $216,195 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Computer and Information Research Scientists" for prevailing-wage purposes.
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About the role
- The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Develop and train world models for action-conditioned prediction, long-horizon planning, and environment simulation - enabling robots to reason about the consequences of their actions before execution.
- Develop foundation models with spatial reasoning capabilities to achieve high-precision robotic actions.
- Optimize and deploy models as production-grade solutions on RoboForce robotic platforms.
- RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work.
- In this role, you will develop algorithms that enable robots to understand their environment, interpret and execute tasks, and communicate seamlessly with humans - with a particular focus on building and training world models that allow robots to predict, plan, and generalize across complex physical tasks.
- Visa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.
- Lunches and dinners, a fully stocked kitchen, and regular team-building events.
Requirements
- Expertise in large foundation models (VLM, VLA, etc.).
Nice to have
- Strong publication record at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, CoRL, ICRA, or equivalent).
- Expertise in neural network deployment (e.g., TensorRT) and GPU programming with CUDA.
Compensation
- Salary $200,000-$360,000 USD + Bonus + Equity
- The base salary range above represents the expected compensation for this full-time U.S. position.
- Final compensation will be determined based on role scope, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training, and may fall outside the listed range in exceptional cases.
Benefits
- Competitive stock options/equity programs.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) plan.
- Compensation: Salary $200,000-$360,000 USD + Bonus + Equity
- Design and deploy vision-language(-action) models (VLM/VLA) for contextual understanding and generalized robot action policies.
- Research approaches to improve world model fidelity using multi-modal inputs including vision, language, proprioception, and spatial representations.
- Integrate multi-modal data sources (vision, language, speech, etc.) to enable natural human-robot communication.
- Final compensation will be determined based on role scope, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training, and may fall outside the listed range in exceptional cases.
Company info
- We are looking for a Senior / Staff AI Research Scientist, Foundation Models to advance robotic embodied intelligence.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship and green card support for qualified candidates.
This listing is sourced directly from RoboForce's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.