AI Research Engineer: Vision AI / VLM / Physical AI-1

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that develops datasets, AI models, and deployment solutions for enterprise customers. The AI Research Engineer will advance computer vision, vision-language models, and physical AI through research, experimentation, and production deployment. The role focuses on perception, multimodal reasoning, robotics, scalable evaluation, and reliable AI systems.

Responsibilities:

• Advance Visual Perception: Build and fine?tune models for detection, tracking, segmentation (2D/3D), pose & activity recognition, and scene understanding (incl. 360 and multi?view)
• Multimodal Reasoning with VLMs: Train/evaluate visionlanguage models (VLMs) for grounding, dense captioning, temporal QA, and tooluse; design retrieval? augmented and agentic loops for perception? action? tasks
• Physical AI & Embodiment: Prototype perception?in?the?loop policies that close the gap from pixels to actions (simulation + real data). Integrate with planners and task graphs for manipulation, navigation, or safety workflows
• Data & Evaluation at Scale: Curate datasets, author high?signal evaluation protocols/KPIs, and run ablations that make results irreproducible impossible
• Systems & Deployment: Package research into reliable services on a modern stack (Kubernetes, Docker, Ray, FastAPI), with profiling, telemetry, and CI for reproducible science
• Agentic Workflows: Orchestrate multi-agent pipelines (e.g., ?LangGraphstyle graphs) that combine perception, reasoning, simulation, and ?codeg eneration to ?selfc heck and ?selfcorrect?