- Santa Clara, California, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Staff
- $175K–$350K per year
Architect the neural backbone of general-purpose robots, designing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) frameworks or Action World Models to enable reasoning and adaptation in industrial settings.
Compensation
The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 – $350,000 USD plus equity.
Responsibilities
- Design model architectures (VLA, World Models) for ultra-high task success rates with minimal human demonstrations
- Develop novel co-training strategies and efficient learning algorithms leveraging diverse data sources
- Build models capable of zero-shot or few-shot adaptation to new robot configurations
- Formulate and deploy novel Reinforcement Learning and policy extraction methods for physical manipulation
- Collaborate on advanced data collection systems for model bootstrapping
Requirements
- MS in CS, Robotics, Machine Learning, or related field
- PhD in CS, Robotics, Machine Learning, or related field
- Nice to have: NeurIPS
- Nice to have: ICRA
- Nice to have: RSS