Founding ML Engineer
a16z-speedrun · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- San Francisco, California, United States
Founding ML Engineer
Responsibilities
- Own the loop from raw robot experience to a model running on real hardware
- Train multimodal models over video, language, proprioception, motor currents, force, tactile, IMU, telemetry, trajectories, and policy traces
- Build models for anomaly detection, episode scoring, failure classification, incident understanding, representation learning, and behavioral evaluation
- Integrate, evaluate, adapt, or fine-tune vision-language-action models and other robot policies across different embodiments
- Develop training and evaluation methods for limited, noisy, heterogeneous, and highly imbalanced real-world robot data