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Join India’s most talent-dense robotics team consisting of individuals from IITs, Stanford, UCLA, etc.\nAbout the Role\nAs a core member of the AI Research team you'll turn cutting-edge, vision-language and diffusion advances into robust real-time systems that see reason and act on dynamic construction sites.\nKey Responsibilities\nResearch & innovate diffusion-based generative models for photorealistic wall-surface simulation, defect synthesis and domain adaptation. \nArchitect and train Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Vision-Language Action Models (VLA) objectives that connect textual work orders, CAD plans and sensor data to pixel-level understanding. \nLead development of auto-annotation pipelines (active learning, self-training, synthetic data) that scale to millions of frames and point-clouds with minimal human effort. \nOptimize and compress models (INT8, LoRA, distillation) for deployment on Jetson-class edge devices under ROS 2. \nOwn the full lifecycle-problem definition, literature review, prototyping, offline/online evaluation and production hand-off to perception & controls teams. \nPublish internal tech reports and external conference papers; 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