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Machine Learning Engineer: Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-01-31 → 2026-07-31

Core

Developing and scaling state-of-the-art learning architectures for behavior cloning and reinforcement learning to enable autonomous systems on heavy construction machinery.

Role type

Machine Learning Engineer (Behavior Learning & Reinforcement Learning)

Builds

Autonomous control systems for heavy construction machinery

Domain

Robotics, Construction, Autonomous Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Behavior cloning, Reinforcement learning, Deep Learning frameworks (PyTorch/Tensorflow/JAX), Data pipeline engineering, Model evaluation in simulation and real-world, System integration, Latency optimization

Preferred skills

Diffusion policies, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, Publications in ICRA/IROS/CoRL/CVPR/ECCV/ICML/NeurIPS

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX

Responsibilities

Design, train, validate, and launch models for behavior cloning and reinforcement learning; Build and maintain data ingestion, labeling, and management pipelines; Build metrics to evaluate model performance in open loop, simulation, and in the real world; Collaborate with simulation, systems, and infrastructure teams to integrate ML models into real-world autonomous systems; Deploy and debug models in real-world environments addressing latency and hardware constraints

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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