Helix AI Engineer, Robot Learning

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. We are looking for a Helix AI Engineer, Robot Learning to help develop and improve our visuomotor manipulation policies.

Requirements

• Design, train, evaluate, and deploy learning-based visuomotor policies for humanoid robot manipulation
• Develop manipulation behaviors such as grasping, pick-and-place, object reorientation, door opening, bimanual manipulation, and basic assembly
• Apply and extend techniques including behavior cloning, reinforcement learning, and VLA reasoning
• Train models that are robust to real-world challenges such as sensor noise, partial observability, contact dynamics, and environment variability
• Own the full pipeline from data collection on real robots to model training, evaluation, and deployment
• Work closely with simulation and digital twin tooling where useful, while prioritizing real-world performance and transfer
• Collaborate with perception, controls, systems, and hardware teams to integrate policies into a full autonomy stack
• Evaluate tradeoffs between learning-based and classical approaches and make principled design decisions
• Write high-quality, well-tested software that ships to and runs reliably on physical humanoid robots
• Partner with integration and testing teams to continuously improve robustness, performance, and deployment velocity