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Design and implement high-fidelity spatial mapping and real-time object recognition pipelines. Integrate vision systems with robotic manipulation and navigation controls. Train and fine-tune Vision-Language-Action models and work with multimodal spatial AI frameworks and robotic hardware.

Design and implement advanced control algorithms for bipedal locomotion and manipulation, train RL policies in simulation, deploy on hardware, and perform sim-to-real transfer and gait/kinematics analysis.

Research, design, and train foundation models for robotics; align text-based reasoning with low-level control policies; evaluate zero-shot generalization; run experiments; integrate models into robotic systems and present findings externally.

Lead product strategy and roadmap for AI and robotics products, translating VLA and agentic RAG breakthroughs into customer value, defining safety/usability/performance metrics, working with enterprise adopters, and driving cross-functional delivery.

Run adversarial tests on language and multimodal models, build guardrails and real-time filters for autonomous tool use, and support RLHF alignment and constitutional AI development to ensure safe AI deployment.

Design and architect multi-agent orchestration frameworks, build tool-calling pipelines and reasoning loops, and optimize latency and token usage for real-time agentic workflows and autonomous operations.

Optimize, compress, and distill large language and vision models for on-device inference. Build pipelines for distillation and hardware-specific compilation, and benchmark performance across NPU/GPU architectures.

Design and implement core Web3 protocol features and secure smart contracts. Develop and deploy Solidity-based contracts, ensure scalability and performance, review code, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate across teams to integrate blockchain and DeFi solutions.

Optimize and scale blockchain node performance, design and implement core system plugins, collaborate with cross-functional teams, conduct performance testing and debugging, and stay current on blockchain and distributed systems technologies to maintain reliable infrastructure.

Audit ZK-circuits and cryptographic primitives to ensure security and efficiency, perform code reviews, evaluate protocols, collaborate across teams, and track advances in ZK technology.