1d ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Robot Learning, Loco-Manipulation
Columbus, Ohio
โจ $150k-$220k / yearest.
full-timemidmanufacturing
๐ Tech Stack
๐ผ About This Role
You'll join a new Robot Learning team as a founding member to build the team's robot-learning stack from the ground up for whole-body loco-manipulation in heavy manufacturing. You'll design training infrastructure, data pipelines, simulation environments, model architectures, and deployment workflows. This role offers the chance to shape a research stack combining visual reasoning, learned action policies, and RL fine-tuning from real customer data.
๐ฏ What You'll Do
- Build the robot-learning stack from the ground up
- Stand up ML infrastructure including training pipelines and experiment tracking
- Train policies across manipulation, locomotion, and whole-body control
- Deploy policies via phased rollout strategy on real robot hardware
๐ Requirements
- PhD or Master's in Robotics, CS, or related field or equivalent experience
- 2+ years hands-on robot learning experience deploying policies on real hardware
- Experience with diffusion-based or flow-matching action policies and action chunking
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills with production-level ML infrastructure experience
โจ Nice to Have
- Edge inference on edge-class hardware (TensorRT, ONNX, FP16/INT8 quantization)
- Visual self-supervised representation learning on robot or 3D-vision tasks
- Legged-robot or whole-body control experience
๐ Benefits & Perks
- ๐ฝ๏ธ Daily free lunch
- ๐๏ธ Flexible PTO
- ๐ฅ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision
- ๐ถ 6 weeks paid parental leave plus additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents
- ๐ฐ 401(k) retirement plan through Empower
๐จ Hiring Process
Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate
- 1Recruiter Screeningยท 30 min
- 2Technical Phone Interviewยท 60 min
- 3On-site Technical Interviewsยท 3 hours
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