San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$189k–$311k/yr
We are looking for the best About Us 42dot is a mobility AI company committed to solving mobility challenges with software and AI. As the Global Software Center of Hyundai Motor Group, 42dot pioneers the future of mobili…
Skills: Deep learning, PyTorch, JAX, Foundation models, Multimodal learning
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
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Olema Oncology is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the standard of care and improving outcomes for patients living with breast cancer and beyond. It’s an exciting time to be part of Te…
Skills: Commercial strategy, Market research, Forecasting, Competitive intelligence, Launch readiness
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$125k–$200k/yr
About Patronus AI Patronus AI is a frontier lab developing simulation research and infrastructure to accelerate progress toward human-aligned AGI. We are on a mission to simulate all of the world’s intelligence. We are t…
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San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
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San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
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Akido builds AI-powered doctors. Akido is the first AI-native care provider, combining cutting-edge technology with a nationwide medical network to address America’s physician shortage and make exceptional healthcare uni…
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$221k–$245k/yr
Discord has a highly engaged community of millions of daily active users who use the platform for many different reasons, but there’s one thing that nearly everyone does: play video games. Discord plays a uniquely import…
Skills: Causal Inference, Experimentation, Statistical Methodologies, Python, SQL
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$279k–$310k/yr
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Skills: Causal inference, Experimentation design, Statistical methodology, Python, SQL
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
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About Scale AI At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading model…
Skills: Python, Distributed systems, System design, Containerization, Docker
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$40/hr–$60/hr
Senior Engineering Technician About Us: Samara Aerospace is revolutionizing satellite design by addressing the challenges of deploying and managing large satellite constellations. Our innovative Hummingbird spacecraft bu…
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San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
$28/hr–$38/hr
Under the supervision of the Curator-in-Charge, the Curatorial Project Coordinator provides support to the curatorial staff for the day-to-day operation of the Prints and Drawings Department (Achenbach Foundation for Gra…
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
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San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$181k–$247k/yr
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$150k–$220k/yr
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Skills: Python, C, C++, Machine learning, Data pipelines
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$320k–$490k/yr
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$176k–$304k/yr
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San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$180k–$256k/yr
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Skills: Python, FastAPI, Kubernetes, AWS, SQL
San Francisco, California, United States · On-site
$260k–$390k/yr
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Skills: Test Automation Architecture, CI/CD Infrastructure, AI-driven Testing, Quality Engineering, Python
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You will research and prototype next-generation Vision-Language-Action architectures and scalable multimodal foundation models for autonomous driving. Additionally, you will contribute to world-model-based predictive intelligence and develop goal-driven autonomous driving agents.
Candidates must hold an MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field. Strong hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks and large-scale model training is required.
42dot is a mobility AI company committed to solving mobility challenges with software and AI. As the Global Software Center of Hyundai Motor Group, 42dot pioneers the future of mobility by advancing the development of software-defined vehicles.
We develop safety-first, user-centric software-defined vehicle technologies that deliver the latest performance through continuous updates like smartphones. By advancing software and AI technology, 42dot envisions a world where everything is connected and moves autonomously through a self-managing urban transportation operating system.
As a Staff VLA Engineer you'll contribute to next-generation autonomous driving intelligence research, working alongside the team to push past current VLA capabilities. You'll bring hands-on expertise in foundation models, multimodal learning, world models, or autonomous systems, and help turn research ideas into real technical progress.
Research and prototype next-generation Vision-Language-Action architectures.
Explore scalable multimodal foundation models for autonomous driving.
Help develop architectures with improved generalization, reasoning, and long-horizon decision making.
Support work on large driving models that unify perception, planning, and action generation.
Build and experiment with world-model-based approaches for predictive driving intelligence.
Work on future-state prediction, behavior forecasting, and counterfactual simulation.
Contribute to long-horizon planning and reasoning research for autonomous driving.
Help build models that understand complex traffic interactions and latent agent intentions.
Research goal-driven autonomous driving agents.
Help develop architectures that integrate reasoning, planning, memory, and action.
Investigate driving agents capable of adaptive decision making in open-world environments.
Contribute ideas toward future driving-agent architectures as successors to current VLA systems.
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).
Research experience in autonomous driving, robotics, or embodied AI (e.g., perception, planning, control, or end-to-end driving models).
Experience with world models, model-based reinforcement learning, or predictive/generative simulation.
Familiarity with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models or agentic AI architectures (reasoning, planning, memory, tool use).
Publications at top-tier AI/ML/robotics venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, CoRL, RSS).
Experience with large-scale distributed training and model optimization.
Prior experience contributing research to production systems or bringing prototypes to deployment.
Familiarity with simulation environments for autonomous driving (e.g., CARLA, nuPlan, Waymo Open Dataset).
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$189,000 to $311,220
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Qualified individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
42dot does not accept unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees for any such submissions. Equal Opportunity Statement
42dot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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We envision a world where everything is connected and moves autonomously through a self-managing urban transportation operating system. We are spearheading the transition to SDV (software-defined vehicle) with software and AI. We are developing diverse SDV technologies that continuously provide vehicle updates and services based on data for user-centric and safe mobility. If you want to create a new future of mobility through software, AI, and automotive vehicles, check out our job openings. Come ride with us!
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