Founding AI Research Engineer - Robot Learning

Origin is building physical AI for the built world. Our robots autonomously finish building interiors at production quality. We're seeking a Founding AI Research Engineer to own the full lifecycle of learned components on OG-1, from data collection and model training through edge deployment on Jetson AGX Orin.

Requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in CS, Robotics, ML, or equivalent experience shipping learned systems on physical robots
• Strong Python and PyTorch; comfort modifying research codebases
• Experience in at least two of: imitation learning, RL, vision-language models, robot learning from demonstration, sim-to-real
• Track record deploying ML on real hardware
• Working knowledge of ROS2 or equivalent robotics middleware
• Experience working with Simulation Systems like Isaac Sim
• GPU profiling and optimization (TensorRT, ONNX, CUDA)
• Strong Plus: Hands-on with VLA architectures, Teleoperation data collection, World model architectures, Construction, manufacturing, or contact-rich industrial domains