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Robotics Machine Learning Engineer

Innovative Robotics and Manufacturing Firm San Francisco, CA Direct Hire Engineering $150,000 - $250,000

Job Summary

Join a high-growth engineering team focused on developing proprietary hardware and machine learning models to automate industrial manufacturing. As a Robotics ML Engineer, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of robot learning, from data ingestion and quality control to deploying high-performing policies on physical hardware.

Essential Functions

  • Build and maintain pipelines to ingest and quality-check terabytes of robot data daily
  • Post-train models and establish reliable, scalable training pipelines
  • Calibrate hardware and perform data quality checks to ensure optimal model performance
  • Establish company standards for data processing and model training workflows
  • Monitor and integrate emerging robot-learning research into production systems

Required Qualifications

  • 0 to 7 years of experience in robotics machine learning or related fields
  • Proven experience with physical robotic systems such as manipulators, drones, or autonomous vehicles
  • Strong proficiency in Python and practical experience with PyTorch or JAX
  • Experience training and deploying learned policies on physical hardware
  • Experience with C++, Rust, or low-level GPU work is highly valued
  • Ability to work on defense and government-related robotics applications

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in the defense-tech sector
  • Background in high-volume manufacturing or industrial automation
  • Experience with distributed training or evaluation infrastructure
  • History of building complex personal projects or hardware prototypes

Technical Skills

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • JAX
  • C++
  • Rust
  • Data Pipeline Engineering
  • Model Deployment
  • Hardware Calibration

Education & Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical field from a top-tier university is preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $150,000 - $250,000 per year

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