CareerPlan

Staff Engineer, Hivemind Reasoning (R6292)

San Mateo, CaliforniaFull-time2026-10-15 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, implement, train, and evaluate reasoning and cognition models for unmanned autonomous platforms, focusing on foundation models, VLMs, and VLAs.

Role type

Staff IC machine-learning engineer (autonomous systems)

Builds

Reasoning and cognition models for unmanned autonomous platforms

Domain

Defense technology + autonomous systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

foundation models, deep learning, self-supervised learning, supervised fine-tuning, imitation learning, reinforcement learning, distillation, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, multimodal models, embodied AI, robotics algorithms, edge compute

Preferred skills

model optimization for resource-constrained hardware, simulation-to-real transfer, unmanned autonomous systems in defense, large distributed systems, high-fidelity simulation