# Member of Technical Staff, Vision/Language Research at XDOF

- Company: XDOF
- What the company does: Defining motion for autonomous systems. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.xdof.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo Hybrid
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $200K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-23
- Apply by: 2026-12-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/XDOF/f0bd8c25-6e7c-4977-ba03-99340f9b742f?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/xdof-member-of-technical-staff-vision-language-research/

## About the role

Develop and evaluate representations that bridge visual perception, language, and low-level robot action conditioned on different modalities Collaborate directly with partner labs to define data requirements and close the loop between data quality and downstream policy performance Stay current on the research frontier (VLAs, video foundation models, flow matching, DiT architectures, egocentric pretraining) and translate insights into new research and production systems Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field from a top-tier program
- 3–7 years of research or applied research experience (industry or academic) in one or more of: vision-language models, video understanding, robot learning, or generative modeling
- Deep fluency in PyTorch, working knowledge of large-scale training infrastructure (distributed training, mixed precision, large batch workflows)
- Published work or demonstrable impact in VLMs/VLAs, video representation learning, imitation learning, or a closely related area
- Strong engineering fundamentals — you can design clean systems, not just run experiments

Tags: AI & ML

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