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Base pay range
$210,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr
Additional compensation types
Stock options
About the Company - Were a Series A rocket ship reimagining how physical products are built. By fusing largescale imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and visionlanguageaction (VLA) models, we give robots the judgment to tackle the messy edgecases of factory assembly. Our customers already rely on us to keep milliondollar lines runningnow were scaling from cool demo to industry standard.
About the Role - 2025 is the year autonomy jumps the lab wall. As our first Senior/Stafflevel AI hire after the Series A close, youll own the brains of a new generation of factory robots:
- Ship research, not slide decks. Your models go to production lines within weeks, not years.
- See impact at scale. Each model you deploy unlocks 1040% production gains and gets us one step closer to reshoring manufacturing to the US.
- Shape the technical culture. Youll set coding standards, review research directions, and mentor the next wave of roboticists.
Responsibilities
- Technical leadership - Set coding and research standards, unblock teams, and mentor senior+ engineers.
- Crossfunctional impact - Codesign sensors with EE/ME, influence product roadmaps, and brief execs & customers on autonomy strategy.
Qualifications and Required Skills
- Handson with visionlanguageaction (VLA) or diffusionpolicy models; experience adapting openweight LLMs for embodied control.
- Hold an MS/PhDor equivalent scar tissuein Robotics, CS, EE or Applied Math.
- Have 6+ yrs delivering MLpowered robots, AVs, or complex realtime systemsincluding at least one product that shipped.
- Architect deeplearning stacks in PyTorch/TensorFlow; squeeze them into realtime constraints with C++/CUDA.
- Thrive on high ownership and ambiguous, firstofkind problems.
- Enjoy startup speed: light process and direct access to customers.
Preferred Skills
- ISO 10218, IEC 61508, functionalsafety tooling, and realtime monitoring for collision/risk envelopes.
- Largescale Isaac Gym / MuJoCo farms, procedurally generated assets, and simtoreal gap metrics.
- Firstauthor papers at CoRL / RSS / ICRA or maintainer status on a widelyused roboticsAI repo.
Pay range and compensation package
- $210k-$300k
- Meaningful equity
- 401k + Health Insurance
Seniority level
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Engineering and Information TechnologyIndustries
Robotics Engineering, Manufacturing, and Software Development
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