What You'll DoAs a Research Scientist at Roboflow Labs, you'll sit at the intersection of our benchmarks, our models, and the researchers at frontier labs who buy our data: running failure analyses that show exactly where a model breaks on real-world tasks, turning those findings into dataset and evaluation specifications, and validating that the data we ship actually moves the numbers. You'll publish, extend RF100-VL and the benchmarks that follow it, and help set the research agenda for a team whose work is grounded in millions of real deployments rather than fabricated test sets.
- Design datasets, evaluations, and RL environments that target measurable gaps in frontier vision-language, multi-modal, robotics, and coding models
- Run structured failure analyses on partner labs' models against Roboflow's real-world task distribution and write the remediation specs that say what data will close each gap
- Own the research behind new benchmarks that we publish.
- Validate data quality empirically - fine-tune, ablate, and measure so that every dataset we sell comes with evidence it works
- Contribute to Roboflow's open models (RF-DETR and successors) and represent Labs within the research community
- Work directly with research scientists at frontier labs as a technical peer, translating their model roadmaps into concrete data programs
Who You AreYou are a researcher who wants to see your work turn into data that ships. You have high agency and a bias toward action.
- PhD or equivalent research experience in computer vision, multi-modal learning, machine learning, or a closely related field, with a track record of published work or shipped research
- Hands-on experience with post-training: fine-tuning, RL, evaluation design, or data curation for large models
- Strong engineering fundamentals - you write the code for your own experiments and can hand it to an engineer to productionize
- Clear written communication; you can explain a failure mode to a lab researcher and a data spec to an annotator
- Nice to have: experience at a frontier lab or as a data/evaluation partner to one; experience with vision-language models, robotics learning, or agentic coding evaluations
Where You'll WorkRoboflow is a fully distributed company with hubs in San Francisco, New York City, Singapore, and Brazil. Roboflow Labs works in person in San Francisco. We host full company retreats twice per year.
What You'll ReceiveThe target compensation for this role is
$250,000 - $450,000 base salary commensurate with experience as well as equity in the company. Total cash comp is expected to scale significantly with growth of Roboflow Labs.
In addition, we offer generous perks and benefits. Below are some of the highlights:
- Generous stipends covering travel, productivity, tools, meals, and office.
- Up to 100% of your health insurance costs covered.
- Unlimited PTO - with an annual 2 week minimum.
- 12 weeks parental leave
Not sure if this is you?We want a diverse, global team with a broad range of experience and perspectives. We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with you, find another team that might be a better fit, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.
