Head of Capability Development - Home & Service
Core
Lead the team developing reliable locomanipulation capabilities for bipedal humanoid robots to perform tasks like tidying rooms, loading dishwashers, and folding laundry in home and service environments.
Role type
Senior IC/Player-coach Head of Capability Development (Robot Learning)
Builds
Production-ready robot learning policies and capabilities deployed on real humanoid hardware
Domain
Robotics, Applied Deep Learning, Humanoid Locomotion & Manipulation
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied deep learning, Robot learning (locomanipulation), Team leadership (5+ engineers), Hands-on policy training & debugging, VLA policy post-training (behavior cloning/RL), Teleoperation & low-level control stack, Deep learning infrastructure (PyTorch/JAX)
Preferred skills
Multi-fingered dexterous hands experience, Legged platforms expertise, Physical Intelligence models (NVIDIA GR00T), Top-tier conference publications
Technologies
PyTorch, JAX, VLA frameworks, Digital twins, RL controllers
Responsibilities
Own the capability roadmap and execution strategy, Hire and manage robot learning engineers, Co-own the system 0/1 interface with Controls team, Define data strategy for bipedal locomanipulation, Drive sim-to-real transfer for RL training, Shape base model development for VLA, Inform hardware design iterations, Report progress on evals and failure analysis
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
