Lead Research Scientist Vision AI, Simulation & Physical AI (Seattle)

About the Team

Centifics Robotics and Physical AI Lab is pioneering the fusion of simulation-first research , embodied intelligence , and multimodal perception .

Our mission : accelerate the transition from vision and language understanding to real-world action , enabling next-generation robots, agents, and safety systems across industries.

Were assembling a cross-functional team of engineers, researchers, and interns exploring vision-language models (VLMs) , world models , and sim2real transfer .

As our Lead Research Scientist , you will steer this effortbridging academic rigor with hands-on experimentation, guiding early-stage researchers, and converting scientific breakthroughs into deployable AI systems.

🎯 Mission

Drive the scientific and technical direction of Centifics Physical AI and Robotics R&D .

Lead by examplementoring a team of interns and engineers while collaborating across simulation, perception, and multimodal AI.

🔬 What Youll Do

Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead a team of 35 Ph.D. interns and engineers across perception, multimodal reasoning, and simulation projects.
• Architect and maintain a collaborative research roadmap with measurable milestones and publishable outcomes.
• Foster a culture of open research, reproducibility, and iterative learning.

Research & Development

System Integration & Deployment

Collaboration

📚 Minimum Qualifications

🌟 Preferred Qualifications

🧩 What Success Looks Like

Our Stack

Modeling : PyTorch, JAX, Hugging Face, xFormers

Simulation : Isaac Sim, MuJoCo, Open3D, COLMAP, 3DGS / NeRF

Systems : Python, Ray, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Docker, Triton, Weights & Biases

Multimodal AI : CLIP, SAM, LLaVA, Cosmos-Reason, Vision-Language Transformers

Data & Evaluation : Omniverse USD pipelines, world-model benchmarks, synthetic-to-real datasets

🚀 Why Join Centific

Centific is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.