VLM Research Engineer

2 days ago


Vapi, Gujarat, India Meril Full time
Job Title: VLM Research Engineer

Location: Vapi, Gujarat

Employment Type: Full-Time

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled VLM Research Engineer to build multimodal (vision-language-action) models for instruction following, scene grounding, and tool use across platforms. The role involves developing advanced models that bridge perception and language understanding for autonomous systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Pretrain and finetune VLMs, aligning them with robotics data including video, teleoperation, and language.
- Build perception-to-language grounding for referring expressions, affordances, and task graphs.
- Develop Toolformer/actuator interfaces to convert language intents into actionable skills and motion plans.
- Create evaluation pipelines for instruction following, safety filters, and hallucination control.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams for integration of models into robotics platforms.

Must-Haves

- Master's or PhD in a relevant field.
- 1–2+ years of experience in Computer Vision/Machine Learning.
- Strong proficiency in PyTorch or JAX; experience with LLMs and VLMs.
- Familiarity with multimodal datasets, distributed training, and RL/IL.

Nice-to-Haves

- Experience with world models, diffusion-policy integration, and speech interfaces.
- Familiarity with sim-to-real transfer in robotics applications.

Success Metrics

- Success@k on language-based tasks.
- Grounding precision and latency.
- Sim-to-real performance retention.

Domain Notes

Humanoids:

- Language-guided manipulation and tool use.

AGVs (Autonomous Ground Vehicles):

- Natural language tasking for warehouse operations; semantic maps.

Cars:

- Gesture and sign interpretation; driver interaction.

Drones:

- Natural language mission specification; target search and inspection.

Application Instructions

Interested candidates may apply by sending their resume and cover letter to parijat.patel@merai.co with the subject line: "VLM Research Engineer Application".

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