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