Founding Research Engineer

Mbodi AI is hiring a Founding Research Engineer to develop AI systems that help robots understand language, reason about the physical world, learn tasks, and act reliably. The role combines research and hands-on engineering, from exploring foundation models and developing algorithms to validating and deploying them on physical robots.

Responsibilities:

• Agentic AI & Reasoning: Develop intelligent agent architectures for task planning, decision-making, skill composition, and autonomous error recovery
• Embodied AI & Robot Learning: Research and implement approaches that enable robots to learn new skills from natural language, demonstrations, and interaction
• Multimodal Intelligence: Leverage and advance vision-language models, foundation models, and perception systems for physical-world understanding and action
• Applied Research: Explore emerging techniques in generative AI, robotic foundation models, and learning-based control, translating promising research into working systems
• Real-World Validation: Design experiments, evaluate model performance, and deploy algorithms on physical robots to improve generalization, reliability, and autonomy
• Technical Leadership: Shape core AI architecture, research directions, and technical strategy as an early member of the founding team