Founding Robot Learning Research Engineer position at a vertically integrated robotics company building dexterous factory automation, with a focus on generating data to solve the biggest bottleneck in robot learning.
Requirements
- PhD or equivalent depth in robot learning through research or hands-on systems building
- Strong track record training large-scale VLAs, VLMs, diffusion models, or world models from pretraining through finetuning
- Experience building and shipping a working policy on real hardware, including data collection, training, and real-world execution
- Deep hands-on experience with real robot hardware, including bring-up, ROS/ROS2, joint control, inverse kinematics, and building the stack from scratch
- Experience building inside and expanding upon robot simulators
- Ability to leverage AI-assisted development to maximize output across a wide stack
- Low ego, evidence-driven, and comfortable with ambiguity and incomplete infrastructure
- Thrives in small, tight-knit teams, with a collaborative, friendly, and easy-to-work-with approach
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
Originally posted on Himalayas