1d ago

Machine Learning Engineer, Robot Learning, Loco-Manipulation

Columbus, Ohio

โœจ $150k-$220k / yearest.

full-timemidmanufacturing

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ 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.

๐ŸŽฏ 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

๐Ÿ“‹ 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

โœจ 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

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ Daily free lunch
  • ๐Ÿ–๏ธ Flexible PTO
  • ๐Ÿฅ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision
  • ๐Ÿ‘ถ 6 weeks paid parental leave plus additional 6-8 weeks for birthing parents
  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ 401(k) retirement plan through Empower

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter Screeningยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Phone Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3On-site Technical Interviewsยท 3 hours
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