Autonomous Systems Research Engineer

Job Title : VLM Research Engineer

Location : Vapi, Gujarat

Employment Type : Full-Time

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled VLM Research Engineer to build multimodal (vision-language-action) models for instruction following, scene grounding, and tool use across platforms. The role involves developing advanced models that bridge perception and language understanding for autonomous systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Pretrain and finetune VLMs, aligning them with robotics data including video, teleoperation, and language.
• Build perception-to-language grounding for referring expressions, affordances, and task graphs.
• Develop Toolformer / actuator interfaces to convert language intents into actionable skills and motion plans.
• Create evaluation pipelines for instruction following, safety filters, and hallucination control.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for integration of models into robotics platforms.

Must-Haves

experience with LLMs and VLMs.

Nice-to-Haves

Success Metrics

Domain Notes

Humanoids :

AGVs (Autonomous Ground Vehicles) :

semantic maps.

Cars :

driver interaction.

Drones :

target search and inspection.

Application Instructions

Interested candidates may apply by sending their resume and cover letter to parijat.patel@merai.co with the subject line : “VLM Research Engineer Application” .