AI Research Engineer: Vision AI / VLM / Physical AI

📋 Description

• • AI Research Engineer focused on Vision AI, Vision-Language Models (VLMs), and Physical AI, driving research that bridges cutting-edge innovation with real-world deployment in perception, reasoning, and embodied systems.
• • Day-to-day responsibilities include advancing visual perception models (2D/3D detection, tracking, segmentation, pose recognition), training and evaluating VLMs for grounding and temporal reasoning, prototyping perception-in-the-loop policies for robotics, curating high-quality datasets with rigorous evaluation protocols, packaging research into scalable services using Kubernetes, Docker, Ray, and FastAPI, and orchestrating agentic workflows combining perception, reasoning, and simulation.
• • Join Centific, a frontier AI data foundry with over 150 PhDs and 4,000 AI practitioners, empowering enterprise clients and the Magnificent Seven with scalable, safe AI deployment through integrated solutions spanning data curation, fine-tuned LLMs, RAG pipelines, and zero-distance innovation™ that reduces GenAI costs by up to 80% and accelerates time-to-market by 50%.
• • In this role, you will publish or open-source research, build production-ready modules that improve product KPIs (latency, accuracy, robustness), develop clean, reproducible code with documented ablations, and create demos that communicate technical capabilities and limitations—all while receiving mentorship from senior engineers and working at the velocity of product with the rigor of top-tier research.