Principal AI Research Engineer - World Models
Principal AI Research Engineer - World Models
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Job Description
Company Overview
Reflex Robotics is building affordable ($10k) wheeled humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics.
We envision a future where intelligent robots are doing all kinds of boring work that people hate doingloading chicken nuggets into Costco boxes lifting forty pound bags of dog food at Petco stores and cleaning up cranberry juice spills in your apartment.
We are a three-year-old startup backed by Khosla Ventures with $60M/year of revenue lined up pending successful pilots with e-commerce warehouses in 2025.
How Does It Work
Our robots are designed and built entirely in-house by an engineering team that led development of the Stretch robot at Boston Dynamics and key systems on the Tesla Model S X and Y production lines. Reflex robots are high-performance low-inertia and optimized for low-cost manufacturing.
Weve built the best real-time teleoperation system in the world allowing a remote operator in South America to play a video game to control our robots at human-level speeds. This has allowed us to already ship robots with positive unit economics and enables us to create a powerful human-intervention RL product feedback loop.
Our system allows us to collect high-quality demonstrations at scalegiving us the proprietary data engine needed to train increasingly capable AI systems. Were on track to build the largest robotics dataset in the world which will serve as an important long-term advantage.
Key Company Beliefs
High-quality proprietary robotics data is the next foundation for generational AI companies (like Tesla FSD and ChatGPT).
Being nerd-sniped by maximizing an engineering metric is way less important than solving our customers biggest pain points.
An insane work ethic is required for outsized successand youll be rewarded for it.
What Were Looking For
Were still a small teamwhich means high ownership high equity and the chance to shape the product from the ground up.
VLAs and other great base policies for robotics achieve 80% success rates but in real robot deployments its essential to achieve 99.99% success rates. We cant ask our customers to tolerate our robots packing three socks into a bin instead of four or swapping shipping labels between two packagesnot even once!
You should apply for this role if:
Youve architected and trained large-scale video/world models (ex. Sora Veo)
Youve turned generative models into controllable simulators: action/stateconditioned rollouts
Youve built the data & eval stack for world modeling to quantify downstream policy success
Youd be joining a company that already has a solid core businesswith working hardware delighted customers and profitable unit economics. Reflex is de-risked enough to see the hazy outlines of success but still small enough that theres enormous upside up for grabs.
Come Join Us
This is a rare opportunity to help build a flagship robotics company from the ground upand to do work that will truly matter reshaping what people believe is possible in robotics.
We love to see the things youve worked on. Have a portfolio or insane project youve worked on Share it. Were looking for people who push past the status quo are passionate at work and in their own timewere looking for people who want to win.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
