Job Details

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Base pay range

$210,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr

Additional compensation types

Stock options

About the Company

• We're a Series A rocket ship re-imagining how physical products are built. By fusing large-scale imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and vision-language-action (VLA) models, we give robots the judgment to tackle the messy edge-cases of factory assembly. Our customers already rely on us to keep million-dollar lines running—now we're scaling from "cool demo" to industry standard.

About the Role

• 2025 is the year autonomy jumps the lab wall. As our first Senior/Staff-level AI hire after the Series A close, you'll 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 10–40% production gains and gets us one step closer to reshoring manufacturing to the US.
• Shape the technical culture. You'll 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.
• Cross-functional impact - Co-design sensors with EE/ME, influence product road-maps, and brief execs & customers on autonomy strategy.

Qualifications and Required Skills

• Hands-on with vision-language-action (VLA) or diffusion-policy models; experience adapting open-weight LLMs for embodied control.
• Hold an MS/PhD—or equivalent scar tissue—in Robotics, CS, EE or Applied Math.
• Have 6+ yrs delivering ML-powered robots, AVs, or complex real-time systems—including at least one product that shipped.
• Architect deep-learning stacks in PyTorch/TensorFlow; squeeze them into real-time constraints with C++/CUDA.
• Thrive on high ownership and ambiguous, first-of-kind problems.
• Enjoy startup speed: light process and direct access to customers.

Preferred Skills

• ISO 10218, IEC 61508, functional-safety tooling, and real-time monitoring for collision/risk envelopes.
• Large-scale Isaac Gym / MuJoCo farms, procedurally generated assets, and sim-to-real gap metrics.
• First-author papers at CoRL / RSS / ICRA or maintainer status on a widely-used robotics-AI 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 Technology

• Industries

  Robotics Engineering, Manufacturing, and Software Development

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