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Founding Robot Learning Research Engineer

1 hour, 49 minutes ago
United States, Vietnam
Full-time
Senior
Research Scientist
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Computer Vision PyTorch Reinforcement Learning
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AVOMIND

AVOMIND

AVOMIND is a global recruitment firm based in Berlin, specializing in hiring commercial, strategy, and analytics & insights talent for companies and candidates worldwide. With a focus on executive search and embedded recruitment, AVOMIND connects high-...

Professional Services
11-50
Founded 2019
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Description

  • Break dexterous manipulation problems into testable hypotheses and validate them through rapid experimentation across simulation and real hardware.
  • Own core model development, including architectures, training pipelines, evaluation systems, and foundation model pretraining, post-training, and fine-tuning.
  • Build and maintain data collection infrastructure for continuous, scalable capture of human, robot, and sensor data in a live factory environment.
  • Develop robot and sensor software, including robot bring-up, control stacks, teleoperation tools, and hardware integration across cameras and sensors.
  • Design evaluation benchmarks tied to real factory task performance and use them to measure learning progress.
  • Work closely with the hardware team to ensure learning systems and robot hardware evolve together.
  • Optimize training, inference, and compute allocation to maximize research progress per dollar.
  • Run experiments spanning VLAs, VLMs, diffusion models, world models, reward models, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and RL.
  • Support the transition from infrastructure buildout to automated factory tasks and continuous deployment on industrial robots.

Requirements

  • PhD or equivalent depth in robot learning through research or hands-on systems building.
  • Strong track record training large-scale VLAs, VLMs, diffusion models, or world models from pretraining through fine-tuning.
  • Experience shipping a working policy on real hardware, including data collection, training, and real-world execution.
  • Deep hands-on experience with real robot hardware, including bring-up, ROS/ROS2, joint control, inverse kinematics, and building systems from scratch.
  • Experience building inside and extending robot simulators.
  • Experience with PyTorch or JAX, distributed training, and inference optimization.
  • Comfort working in small, lean, ambiguous environments with incomplete infrastructure.
  • Low-ego, evidence-driven, and collaborative working style.
  • Ability to leverage AI-assisted development aggressively across a broad technical stack.
  • Willingness to work across the US and Vietnam, with targeted trips or full-time relocation depending on role fit.

Benefits

  • Base salary of US$100,000–180,000 per year with flexible salary/equity mix.
  • Equity of 1%–2% with a 4-year vesting schedule and 1-year cliff.
  • Refreshers available based on milestones.
  • Fully covered short Vietnam deployments, including housing, flights, and visa support.
  • Full Vietnam relocation support, including visa support and relocation flights.
  • Flexibility to accommodate family needs for full Vietnam relocation.
  • High-agency founding environment with deep ownership from day one.

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