Robotic Foundation Model Engineer
Posted 26 May 2026
Advertised as “Senior Robotic Foundation Model Engineer (human)”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
Field of studyComputer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics (or related)
Study levelMaster's or higher
Your Mission & Challenges
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Own the outcome on the robot: Drive the development of cognitive robotics applications through Physical AI and the NeuraGym platform — you own the outcome on the customer's robot, not just the model in the repo.
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Execute the full pipeline: Take foundation models to production-ready robotic intelligence by executing the complete NeuraGym pipeline — teleoperation, data annotation, training, simulation, deployment, and validation — tailored to real-world robotics applications. Define the data strategy that makes a fine-tune work and own the full post-training loop including hyperparameter iteration, data mixture, LoRA, and honest evaluation.
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Deploy to real-time control: Take policies from checkpoint to real-time closed-loop control — distillation, quantization, action chunking, latency budgets, and on-device/edge inference under the customer's cycle time and reliability requirements.
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Master the full robotics stack: Work across NEURA OS and the control layer — real-time control, kinematics, motion planning, force/impedance control, and the safety architecture — and integrate learned policies cleanly with the low-level controller instead of treating it as a black box.
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Hands-on system integration: Work directly on MAiRA, MiPA, LARA, and humanoid platforms alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams — end-effectors and tool changers, sensor selection and mounting, calibration, electrical and fieldbus interfaces, and the mechanical reality of the cell.
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Enable and support customers: Guide and onboard users to NeuraGym by reviewing training pipelines and scripts, identifying data quality issues, troubleshooting model behavior, and providing hands-on support to resolve persistent blockers.
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Cross-functional collaboration: Serve as a key interface between Cloud and AI teams, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical alignment, and efficient problem-solving across domains.
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Build evaluation rigor: Create the eval harnesses, success-rate benchmarks, and regression tests that decide whether a policy is ready for handover — and make failure modes visible before the customer finds them.
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Research to production: Prototype techniques from recent papers together with the research team and bring the ones that survive contact with reality into production deployments.