Applied Researcher

Aurora develops self-driving technology intended to improve the safety, efficiency, and accessibility of mobility and logistics. The Applied Researcher will investigate Vision-Language-Model and Vision-Language-Action architectures, identify limitations in current approaches, mentor engineering teams, and translate research into scalable production applications.

Responsibilities:

• Architectural Exploration: Deep dive into VLM/VLA architectures to determine their viability for our specific problem sets
• Technical Mentorship: Act as the subject matter expert and guide for an exceptionally capable engineering team eager to move into this space
• Practical Implementation: Bridge the gap between high-level academic theory and practical, scalable applications
• Innovation: Redesign and optimize model architectures to leverage high-performance computing environments like Aurora