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Research Scientist

RoboflowSan FranciscoRoboflow Labs
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Salary
$250K – $450K
Job type
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Posted
21 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

Roboflow is seeking a Research Scientist for an in-person role based in San Francisco. This position suits a hands-on researcher who wants to connect model benchmarks and datasets directly with real-world deployments.

Role Overview

Roboflow Labs is hiring a Research Scientist to operate within its applied research unit in San Francisco. The position focuses on analyzing model failures, designing datasets and evaluations, extending published benchmarks like RF100-VL, and contributing to open models such as RF-DETR. The individual works directly with researchers at frontier labs as a technical peer.

Key Responsibilities

Design datasets, evaluations, and reinforcement learning environments targeting gaps in frontier vision-language, multi-modal, robotics, and coding models.
Perform structured failure analyses on partner lab models against real-world task distributions and write remediation specifications.
Own the research behind new benchmark publications.
Validate data quality empirically by fine-tuning, ablating, and measuring outcomes.
Contribute to open models including RF-DETR and represent the Labs team in the research community.
Collaborate with frontier lab research scientists to translate model roadmaps into concrete data programs.

Requirements

Hold a PhD or possess equivalent research experience in computer vision, multi-modal learning, machine learning, or a related field, alongside published work or shipped research.
Demonstrate hands-on experience with post-training activities such as fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, evaluation design, or data curation for large models.
Possess strong engineering fundamentals to write experimental code that can be handed to engineers for productionization.
Exhibit clear written communication skills to articulate failure modes to researchers and data specifications to annotators.

Nice to Have

Experience working at a frontier lab or serving as a data or evaluation partner to one.
Familiarity with vision-language models, robotics learning, or agentic coding evaluations.

Skills and Tools

Computer Vision
Multi-Modal Learning
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Fine-Tuning
Evaluation Design
Data Curation
RF-DETR
RF100-VL
Vision-Language Models
Robotics Learning
Agentic Coding Evaluations

Salary and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $250,000 to $450,000 base salary, with total cash compensation scaling significantly with performance and the growth of Roboflow Labs. Additional benefits include company equity, bonus opportunities, stipends for travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office expenses, health insurance coverage up to 100%, unlimited paid time off with a two-week annual minimum, and 12 weeks of parental leave.

About the Company

Roboflow builds tools, community, and resources to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence, creating the visual cortex for AGI. The company has raised over $100 million from investors including Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, and Y Combinator. Roboflow Labs operates as an applied research unit located in San Francisco.

How to Apply

Candidates should apply on the official company careers page.

Skills and tech stack

Computer VisionMulti-Modal LearningMachine LearningReinforcement LearningRF-DETRRF100-VLVision-Language ModelsRobotics LearningFine-tuning

Questions candidates ask

Where is the Research Scientist position located?

The role is based in San Francisco, working in person at Roboflow Labs.

What is the salary range for this role?

The base salary ranges from $250,000 to $450,000, supplemented by equity, bonuses, and performance-based scaling.

What education or background is required?

A PhD or equivalent research experience in computer vision, multi-modal learning, machine learning, or a closely related field is required, along with a track record of published work or shipped research.

What benefits are included?

Benefits include coverage of up to 100% of health insurance costs, stipends for travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office expenses, unlimited PTO with a two-week annual minimum, and 12 weeks of parental leave.

What specific models does Roboflow Labs work on?

The team works on open models such as RF-DETR and benchmarks including RF100-VL.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official Roboflow careers page.

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