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Kiwibot · 1 month ago

Research Engineer Advanced Robotics

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityMid, Senior Level

Kiwibot is a dynamic company that builds AI-powered robots to help businesses automate processes and improve productivity. The Research Engineer in Advanced Robotics will work on visual-language-action models, contributing to the R&D cycle by designing experiments, developing pipelines, and collaborating with various teams to integrate research into deployable systems.

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Responsibilities

Designing and implementing experiments with robotic manipulation systems powered by vision-language-action models
Prototyping and evaluating robot foundation models for generalization across tasks and environments
Developing pipelines for data collection, training and fine-tuning multimodal models using real-world and simulated data
Collaborating with hardware, software, and ML teams to integrate research into deployable systems
Contributing to internal research publications, benchmarks, and open-source tools
Supporting the deployment of intelligent behaviors in physical robots and simulation environments

Qualification

PythonC++ML frameworksRobotic systemsVision-language modelsROS/ROS2Simulation toolsResearch-oriented mindsetExperiment designOpen-source contributions

Required

Master's, or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
Strong programming skills in Python and C++, with experience in ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX)
Hands-on experience with robotic systems, especially in manipulation or mobile platforms
Familiarity with vision-language models (e.g., CLIP, Gemma, VIMA, RT-2) and their application to robotics
A research-oriented mindset with the ability to design, run, and analyze experiments

Preferred

Experience training or fine-tuning large-scale foundation models
Publications in top-tier robotics or ML conferences (e.g., ICRA, CoRL, NeurIPS, CVPR)
Experience with ROS/ROS2 and simulation tools (e.g., Gazebo, Isaac Sim, MuJoCo)
Familiarity with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or self-supervised learning in robotics
Contributions to open-source robotics or ML libraries

Company

Kiwibot

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Kiwibot designs and manufactures a fleet of mobile robots used for food delivery on college campuses.
dateFounded in 2017
location
Berkeley, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.kiwibot.com/

H1B Sponsorship

Kiwibot has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (3)
2022 (1)
2021 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$36.89M
Key Investors
kineo finance
2025-10-30Series Unknown· $6.8M
2025-04-01Undisclosed
2023-05-23Series Unknown· $6.08M

Leadership Team

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Felipe Chávez Cortés
CEO & Cofounder
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Sergio Pachón
Cofounder
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