Tau Robotics · 3 hours ago
Research Engineer, World Models & Robot Learning (RL)
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelTau Robotics is a pioneering company focused on developing general AI for humanoid robots that learn with minimal human supervision. They are seeking a founding engineer to design and build core learning systems, providing significant technical ownership and equity opportunities.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Build data pipelines that scale to 100k+ hours of multimodal robot data
Scale pre- and post-training runs on 1000s of GPUs
Improve inference efficiency on low-power embedded systems
Lead core architectural decisions, help define the long-term technical roadmap, and set engineering standards from the beginning
Qualification
Required
Strong practical experience building software infrastructure
Experience implementing and debugging distributed systems
Extensive experience in Python and at least one deep learning library such as PyTorch or JAX
Preferred
Ideally experienced in implementing scalable training pipelines for world-model-based RL
Experience with systems programming languages (e.g. Rust, C++) is a plus
Benefits
Meaningful equity
Company
Tau Robotics
Tau Robotics is developing general AI technology to enhance the capabilities and intelligence of robots.
Founded in 2024
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$3MKey Investors
Pebblebed
2024-08-01Pre Seed· $3M
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