Roboflow

Roboflow

Research Scientist

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$450kDetected 25 days ago
Machine LearningComputer VisionRoboticsResearchCommunication

Stay score

odds of building a lasting career here

52Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role55
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.

Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.

Personalize to your clock →

Employer immigration record

from this employer's Department of Labor filings

Files H-1B transfers

1 transfer filing in the last year, covering 1 worker. Median labor-condition decision: 7 days. An employer that already files transfers is one that can take over an existing H-1B.

Sourced from Department of Labor LCA, PERM and prevailing-wage disclosure data. Employer matching is by name, so figures may be split across an employer's legal entities. Absence of a filing means none appears in our copy of the data, not that none exists.

Community outcomes

No reports yet — be the first to help the next applicant.

About the role

  • Behind all of it is a global network of millions of Roboflow developers who have annotated billions of images and videos to date, as well as a proven enterprise business that is exploding as AI traverses the physical economy.

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Strong engineering fundamentals - you write the code for your own experiments and can hand it to an engineer to productionize

Requirements

  • You are a researcher who wants to see your work turn into data that ships.
  • You have high agency and a bias toward action.
  • Hands-on experience with post-training: fine-tuning, RL, evaluation design, or data curation for large models
  • you can explain a failure mode to a lab researcher and a data spec to an annotator

Nice to have

  • Generous stipends covering travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office.
  • Roboflow is a fully distributed company with hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Singapore, and Brazil.
  • Roboflow Labs works in person in San Francisco.
  • Total cash comp is expected to scale significantly with growth of Roboflow Labs.
  • Below are some of the highlights:
  • NOT SURE IF THIS IS YOU?
  • We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.

Skills

  • Roboflow is building the visual cortex for AGI.
  • Roboflow Labs is our applied research unit.

Compensation

  • We host full company retreats twice per year.

Benefits

  • The target compensation for this role is $250,000 - $450,000 base salary commensurate with experience as well as equity in the company.
  • In addition, we offer generous perks and benefits.
  • Up to 100% of your health insurance costs covered.
  • Unlimited PTO - with an annual 2 week minimum.
  • 12 weeks parental leave
  • We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics.
  • Design datasets, evaluations, and RL environments that target measurable gaps in frontier vision-language, multi-modal, robotics, and coding models
  • 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

Company info

  • Every day, millions of developers and half of the Fortune 100 use Roboflow to count cells https://blog.roboflow.com/cancer-research-computer-vision/ to accelerate cancer research, improve construction site safety https://blog.roboflow.com/preventing-accidents-on-construction-sites-with-computer-vision/, digitize floor plans https://blog.roboflow.com/floor-plan-analysis-computer-vision/, preserve coral reef populations https://blog.roboflow.com/reefos-supercharging-coral-reef-restoration-with-ai/, guide drone flight https://blog.roboflow.com/georeferencing-drone-videos/, and much more https://roboflow.com/templates.
  • We have built the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence. We're supported by great customers and investors, having raised over $100 million from Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, Y Combinator, and more.
  • Roboflow Labs is our applied research unit. We train our own open models (RF-DETR). We build our own benchmarks grounded in real enterprise use cases (RF100-VL). And we partner with frontier labs to deliver the training data they need to advance the capabilities that drive the most value back to our customers.
  • At Roboflow, we believe great ideas come from everywhere, and everyone.
  • We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
  • We have built the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence.
  • We're supported by great customers and investors, having raised over $100 million from Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, Y Combinator, and more.
  • We train our own open models (RF-DETR).
  • We build our own benchmarks grounded in real enterprise use cases (RF100-VL).
  • And we partner with frontier labs to deliver the training data they need to advance the capabilities that drive the most value back to our customers.

Equal opportunity

  • Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
Apply directly at Roboflow →Create a free account for alerts like thisView Roboflow immigration profile

This listing is sourced directly from Roboflow's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.