Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)
San Francisco, CA, USAny (new grads ok)Full-time$250k – $500kPosted Sep 14, 2026
Job description
- Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models
- Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies
- Publish papers and benchmarks
- data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots
expected to have:
- experience training IL/VLA policies at scale
- First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work