Founding Robot Learning Research Engineer

Founding Research Engineer for robot learning systems in a vertically integrated robotics company, requiring PhD or equivalent experience in robot learning, strong track record in training large-scale models, and hands-on experience with real robot hardware.

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
• Has shipped a working policy on real hardware: data collection, training, and real-world execution
• Deep hands-on experience with real robot hardware: bring-up, ROS/ROS2, joint control, inverse kinematics, and building the stack from scratch
• Experience building inside and expanding upon robot simulators
• Leverages AI-assisted development aggressively to maximize output across a wide stack
• Low ego, evidence-driven, and comfortable with ambiguity and incomplete infrastructure
• Thrives in small, tight-knit teams: collaborative, friendly, and easy to work with

Benefits

• Base salary: US$100,000–180,000 per annum
• Equity: 1%–2%, 4-year vest/1-year cliff; refreshers on milestones
• Short Vietnam Deployments: Fully covered (housing, flights, visa)
• Full Vietnam Relocation:Visa support, relocation flights, and flexibility for family needs