Team AI / Foundation Models
Location On-site
Type Full-time
Level Open — Mid-level through Principal (scoped to experience)

About ET Robotics
ET Robotics is building general-purpose humanoid robots that can perceive, reason, and act over long horizons in the physical world. We pair frontier AI research with real hardware — our robots learn from large-scale multimodal data and are deployed on physical platforms today. We are assembling a small, high-caliber team where research and deployment happen under one roof, and where the models you train run on real robots within weeks, not years.

The Role
We are looking for an AI / VLM Engineer who deeply understands the architecture of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), and who has hands-on expertise pre-training and post-training these models. You will design and train the foundation models that give our humanoids long-horizon intelligence — the ability to understand a scene, reason about a multi-step goal, and translate that into grounded action over extended time horizons.




This is a build role for someone who wants to own model architecture and the full training stack, from data to pre-training to alignment and post-training, and see it deployed on physical robots. The level and scope of the role will be calibrated to your experience, from solid hands-on mid-level engineers to principal researchers who set the research agenda.

What You'll Do
• Design and train VLM / LLM architectures that serve as the reasoning and perception backbone for humanoid robots, including vision-language-action (VLA) formulations that connect perception to control.
• Own pre-training of multimodal foundation models — data curation and mixing, tokenization, objective design, scaling, and distributed training on large GPU clusters.
• Lead post-training including supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RLHF / RLAIF and preference optimization (e.g., DPO), and reward modeling to al

📌 AI / VLM Engineer — Vision-Language Models for Humanoid Robots (New Delhi)
🏢 ET Robotics
📍 New Delhi