Research Engineer – Robotics & Embodied AI

Elorian AI is hiring a Research Engineer – Robotics & Embodied AI to bring robotics expertise into its foundation-model research. The role focuses on advancing visual and spatial intelligence, building robotics data pipelines, exploring embodied reasoning, and connecting foundation models with real-world robotics applications.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Visual & Spatial Intelligence for Robotics: Advance and evaluate visual reasoning, 3D spatial understanding, and physical affordance capabilities directly within our multimodal foundation models to support downstream robotic perception and control
• Architect Robotics Data Pipelines: Design scalable data pipelines—including data collection, teleoperation and trajectory annotation, automated quality assessment, and evaluation frameworks for multi-modal robotic data
• Explore Foundation-Driven Embodied Reasoning: Investigate and implement novel approaches to robotic task planning, hierarchical reasoning, and decision-making powered by multimodal foundation models and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) architectures
• Bridge Foundation Models & Robotics Applications: Collaborate closely with core foundation model researchers and robotics partners to identify real-world bottlenecks, evaluate model capabilities, and build impactful foundational AI solutions for the robotics ecosystem