Research Scientist

The role

You will design datasets, evaluations, and RL environments to target gaps in frontier vision-language, multi-modal, robotics, and coding models. You will run failure analyses, own research for new benchmarks, and contribute to open models.

What you will do

• Design datasets, evaluations, and RL environments
• Run structured failure analyses on partner labs' models
• Write remediation specs for data gaps
• Own the research behind new published benchmarks
• Validate data quality through fine-tuning, ablation, and measurement
• Contribute to Roboflow's open models
• Represent Labs within the research community
• Work with research scientists at frontier labs to translate model roadmaps into data programs

Required qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience in computer vision, multi-modal learning, machine learning, or a closely related field
• Track record of published work or shipped research
• Hands-on experience with post-training: fine-tuning, RL, evaluation design, or data curation for large models
• Strong engineering fundamentals
• Ability to write code for experiments
• Clear written communication

Nice to have

• experience at a frontier lab or as a data/evaluation partner to one
• experience with vision-language models, robotics learning, or agentic coding evaluations

Benefits

• Generous stipends covering travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office
• Up to 100% of your health insurance costs covered
• Unlimited PTO - with an annual 2 week minimum
• 12 weeks parental leave

About the company

Roboflow is building the visual cortex for AGI. Roboflow Labs is their applied research unit that trains open models and builds benchmarks.