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Principal ML Engineer (Robotics)

US, MA, Boston💼 Full-time💰 $200,000–$200,000🗓 2026-02-02 → 2026-07-30

Core

Developing multimodal ML models and robot learning systems (RL, IL) for dexterous manipulation and autonomous tasks.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)

Builds

Dexterous robots with rich sensing modalities (vision, audio, tactile, spatial) for industrial challenges.

Domain

Robotics, Physical AI, Industrial Automation

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Large-scale model training, PyTorch, Multi-GPU cluster management, Software development for deployable ML systems, Data lifecycle management

Preferred skills

Foundation models, World models, Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs), ROS/ROS2, Isaac Sim

Technologies

PyTorch, DeepSpeed, ROS, ROS2, Isaac Sim

Responsibilities

Lead development of robot learning models (RL, IL), Design simulation environments and evaluation frameworks, Optimize and deploy trained policies onto real-world robots, Solve system-level performance bottlenecks, Contribute to full data lifecycle from collection to pipeline optimization, Build reusable software frameworks

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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