# AI Engineer - Foundational Vision & Language Models for Robotics

**Company:** [Shifters](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/dMBfCyptMF7ikFeMhMWivg.md)
**Location:** Yavne, Israel
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** R&D

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## Description

Mid–Senior | Robotics | Applied Research & Deployment

We are hiring a Mid–Senior AI Engineer to join our AI team and work on large language, vision-language, and vision-language-action models for robotic autonomy. This role will focus on improving the robot’s reasoning, planning, and autonomous decision-making capabilities using modern foundational AI models.

You will collaborate closely with the AI, robotics, and embedded software teams to build intelligent robotic capabilities end to end — from model development and evaluation to integration and deployment on real robots with onboard compute.

### What You’ll Do

-   Design, develop, and deploy LLM-, VLM-, and VLA-based systems for robotic reasoning, planning, perception, and action.
-   Build agentic and multi-agent systems for robotic decision-making and task execution.
-   Develop human–robot interaction capabilities using language, vision, and multimodal inputs.
-   Fine-tune, adapt, evaluate, and deploy foundation models for real-world robotic use cases.
-   Integrate AI models with perception, navigation, control, and ROS-based robotic systems.
-   Work on model deployment for fully onboard and hybrid edge/cloud compute scenarios.
-   Build evaluation pipelines for robot autonomy, model behavior, task success, reliability, and safety.
-   Collaborate with embedded software and robotics engineers to connect high-level AI systems with real-time robot execution.
-   Translate research ideas into practical, robust systems that operate on physical robots.

## Requirements

-   Strong background in Python, machine learning, deep learning, and applied AI development.
-   Hands-on experience working with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal models, or foundation model pipelines.
-   Experience with model fine-tuning, prompting, evaluation, inference optimization, or deployment.
-   Familiarity with agent frameworks, tool-using models, planning systems, or similar architectures.
-   Strong understanding of modern AI model development workflows, including data preparation, training, evaluation, and deployment.
-   Ability to work across software boundaries, from research code to production-quality robotic systems.
-   Strong systems thinking and the ability to reason about end-to-end autonomy pipelines.
-   Experience debugging complex AI systems in real-world or simulated environments.