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Embodied AI Lead / Robot Brain Lead

El Segundo, CA-HQ💼 Full-time💰 $180,000–$180,000🗓 2026-07-06 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing and deploying the overall Embodied AI architecture (Robot Brain) for intelligent electric vehicles and robotics platforms, bridging vision-language-action models with visuomotor control.

Role type

Senior IC machine-learning engineer (robotics/embodied AI) with team leadership

Builds

Production-ready Robot Brain systems for locomotion, manipulation, and task planning on real robotic hardware

Domain

Automotive AI and Robotics

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

ML/robotics architecture design, VLM/LLM/VLA implementation, visuomotor control policies, world models, multi-GPU training (PyTorch/JAX), sim-to-real transfer, team leadership

Preferred skills

PhD in Robotics/AI, foundation models for robotics, scaling robot learning systems in production

Technologies

VLMs, VLAs, multimodal LLMs, PyTorch, JAX, diffusion policies, transformer policies, RL/BC hybrids

Responsibilities

Design Robot Brain architecture (System 1/2, world models), define technical roadmap, lead implementation on robot platforms, collaborate on control skills and data pipelines, define safety/evaluation protocols, hire and mentor a small team

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with team leadership

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