Research Scientist, Foundational Models

Were on a mission to redefine vehicle safety and reliability on a global scale. Founded in 2016, we have pioneered the worlds first fully automated suite of vehicle inspection systems, with advanced AI at the core, spanning Machine Learning, GenAI, and computer vision across the automotive sector. With close to $400M in funding and strategic partnerships with industry giants such as Amazon, General Motors, Volvo, and CarMax, we stand at the forefront of automotive technological advancement. Our growing global team of over 300 employees is united around a culture of innovation, excellence, and teamwork as we build a safer automotive world.
We are looking for an experienced Research Scientist, Foundational Models to drive our long-term foundational model effort. You will design and train a single model that unifies all of our inspection segments (cars, trucks, fleets, tires, undercarriage, and future verticals) and serves as the basis for distillation into smaller, cheaper production models.
A day in the life and how youll make an impact
* Design and run large-scale pretraining experiments over our multi-segment inspection data.
* Develop self-supervised and multi-task learning recipes that transfer cleanly across vehicle segments and use cases.
* Build distillation pipelines that hand off compact, efficient models to production teams.
* Drive fast-adaptation methods so new segments and customers can be onboarded with minimal labels.
* Set and uphold ourresearch bar through rigorous evaluation, ablations, and publication-quality work.