XDOF

Technology

MemberofTechnicalStaff,Vision/Language

$145–215k ~AI est. San Mateo, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Member of Technical Staff, Vision / Language at XDOF. Skills: Vision-language models, Robot learning, Data infrastructure. Build systems that turn raw egocentric and teleoperation. Contribute to the models themselves”

What You'll Achieve.

Close the loop between data quality and downstream policy performance

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

MS or PhD in Computer Science, 3–7 years of research or applied research experience, Deep fluency in working knowledge of large-scale training infrastructure, Published work or demonstrable impact in VLMs/VLAs, Engineering fundamentals

Nice to Have

Junior candidates will still be considered

What You'll Do.

Build systems that turn raw egocentric and teleoperation

Contribute to the models themselves

Drive research into what makes robot data useful

Discover new metadata

Explore how structured annotations can improve cross-embodiment transfer

Design and implement vision-language pipelines

Develop and evaluate representations that bridge visual perception

Build and improve data curation systems

Work hands-on with bimanual and high-DoF manipulation data

Collaborate directly with partner labs to define data

Close the loop between data quality and downstream

Stay current on the research frontier

Translate insights into production systems

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate directly with partner labs

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