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Research Engineer - Robot Learning

Sunnyvale💼 Full-time🗓 2025-08-19 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop cutting-edge physical AI for end-to-end autonomous driving and robotic generalist applications, deploying methods into self-driving vehicles, mining/construction machines, and humanoid robots.

Role type

Research Engineer (Robot Learning & Simulation)

Builds

Robotic simulation environments, RL training pipelines, and end-to-end autonomy algorithms for mass production vehicles and robots.

Domain

Robotics, Autonomous Driving, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision

Deliverable

production ML models | research

Required skills

Python, PyTorch, computer vision, robotics systems, distributed machine learning model training, reinforcement learning, multi-modal robot learning, VLA post-training, physics-aware reconstruction, deformable simulation

Preferred skills

World-action foundation models, video/Gaussian generation, diffusion policy, industry experience in self-driving applications

Technologies

Python, PyTorch

Responsibilities

Support robotic and data collection hardware setup and design mechatronic systems; construct robotic simulation environments at scale for RL training; process human data for robotic use cases; collaborate on high-quality research publications; work with engineering teams to deploy end-to-end algorithms for mass production vehicles.

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