Robot.com · 2 months ago
Research Engineer Advanced Robotics
Mission Street, San Francisco, United States, US
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid LevelRobot.com is a dynamic company that builds AI-powered robots to help businesses automate processes and improve productivity. In this role, you will push the frontier of visual-language-action models and play a vital role in the R&D cycle, working hands-on with real-world robotic systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Robotic Process Automation (RPA)Robotics
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
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
Robot.com
Robot.com is a technology company that offers AI and robotic systems for logistics and delivery industries.
Founded in 2025
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase