# Machine Learning: Multimodal Foundation Models at The Bot Company

- Company: The Bot Company
- Company website: https://www.thebot.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-02-25
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thebotcompany/aa5a8fff-d742-461a-a987-9bcaf87e44d5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/the-bot-company-machine-learning-multimodal-foundation-models/

## About the role

Build Native Multimodal Policies: Develop architectures where vision, language, and more modalities share a unified representation. Improve Cross-Modal Reasoning: Research and implement methods to ensure the model doesn't just "associate" modalities but actually reasons through them (e.g., grounding visual physics in kinematic constraints).

## What they're looking for

- Very strong coding skills in Python, C++, or Rust
- Production MLLM Experience: Track record of training and deploying large-scale multimodal models
- Pretraining & RL Mastery: Deep intuition for LLM-style pretraining, post-training, and Reinforcement Learning at scale
- Infrastructure Fluency: Comfortable managing and optimizing large-scale experiments on massive GPU clusters

Tags: Engineering