Staff VLA Engineer

42dot, Sunnyvale

What you need

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Strong hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX).
Solid understanding of foundation models, multimodal learning, or transformer-based architectures.
Experience training or fine-tuning large-scale models (vision, language, or multimodal).
Strong software engineering skills and experience working with large-scale data pipelines.
Ability to read, implement, and extend ideas from recent AI research papers.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, comfortable working across distributed, cross-functional, and cross-cultural teams (Silicon Valley + HQ Korea).

42dot, Sunnyvale

$250K–$325K

a year

This base pay is above the median for staff software engineering jobs in the Bay Area.

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MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
Strong hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX).
Solid understanding of foundation models, multimodal learning, or transformer-based architectures.
Experience training or fine-tuning large-scale models (vision, language, or multimodal).
Strong software engineering skills and experience working with large-scale data pipelines.
Ability to read, implement, and extend ideas from recent AI research papers.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills, comfortable working across distributed, cross-functional, and cross-cultural teams (Silicon Valley + HQ Korea).