Founding Robot Learning Research Engineer

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