Robotics Software Researcher | Physical AI 📍 San Francisco — Onsite I’m hiring a Robotics Software Researcher for a well-funded frontier AI startup building at the intersection of multimodal AI, robotics and real-time intelligent systems. The team has developed cutting-edge real-time voice AI, solving difficult problems around multimodal understanding and agents that perceive and respond to dynamic environments. Now, they’re taking that research into the physical world. The Role You’ll join a new team focused on robotics and physical AI, working across robotics software, computer vision, VLMs and multimodal models to take research from experimentation through to real-world systems. Looking for: • Strong robotics software and engineering fundamentals • Experience with computer vision, VLMs or multimodal models • Strong Python + ML/deep learning experience • Ability to implement and experiment with cutting-edge research • Experience building real-world robotic or embodied AI systems Backed by leading AI investors, major technology companies and prominent startup accelerators, this is an opportunity to join early and help build a physical AI research direction from the ground up. If you’re working at the intersection of robotics, vision and multimodal AI, apply or reach out directly.