SeniorStaff Research Engineer – Robot Learning (mfd)
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17 hours ago
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Job Summary
Your Mission
RobCo is spearheading a revolution in modular robotics making automation radically easier more flexible and more intelligent. With over 50 million in funding from world-class investors such as Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed we are building the category-leading robotics company in Europe and the US.
As a Senior Research Engineer - Robot Learning you will drive the development adaptation and real-world deployment of cutting-edge learning-based techniques for robotic manipulation. You will work at the intersection of machine learning robotics and systems engineering - scouting state-of-the-art research and translating it into robust scalable capabilities that run on real robots every day.
You will shape the core of RobCos robot learning stack: model selection policy training evaluation frameworks and sim-to-real workflows. As a senior member of the team you will mentor junior engineers and guide key technical decisions while keeping the stack pragmatic efficient and aligned with product needs.
Your Responsibilities
Research benchmark and evaluate state-of-the-art robot learning methods (e.g. VLA models transformers diffusion policies RL visuomotor models)
Adapt academic models for real-world deployment with a focus on robustness latency and safety
Develop proprietary robot learning models tailored to RobCos data hardware and modular platform
Build scalable training data and evaluation workflows together with infrastructure and software teams
Integrate learned policies into robotic systems including perception control and runtime pipelines
Define clear performance metrics and build automated evaluation loops (simulation and hardware)
Own benchmarking pipelines and ensure models meet deployment readiness standards
Mentor junior engineers/researchers and lead technical reviews of learning-based components
Collaborate closely with perception manipulation simulation and software teams on system-level design
Stay current with the state of the field and guide strategic robot learning directions at RobCo
Your Profile
Advanced degree (Masters; PhD preferred) in Machine Learning Robotics Computer Science or a related field
5-10 years of experience in robot learning research or ML for robotics (industry or academic)
Strong grounding in imitation learning reinforcement learning and simulation-to-real transfer.Publication record at conferences like CoRL Humanoids RSS IROS NeurIPS ICLR a strong plus
Hands-on experience deploying learned policies on real robotic systems
Excellent Python skills; experience with PyTorch JAX HuggingFace or similar frameworks
Ability to design experiments evaluate models rigorously and communicate results clearly
Proven track record mentoring engineers or researchers and driving research-quality code
Bonus: experience with VLA/foundation models robotic datasets ROS 2 or scalable training systems (Ray AWS Slurm)
Why us
Shape the future of learning-based robotics from the ground up
Research-focused environment with a direct path to real-world deployment
Access to simulation tools large datasets real robot fleets and scalable cloud compute
High degree of ownership autonomy and influence on long-term robot learning strategy
Hybrid work model flexible hours and high-performance equipment
Join RobCo and build the next generation of ML-driven robotic intelligence.
About us
At RobCo applicants are selected regardless of ethnic origin religion gender age disability or sexual orientation. All decisions throughout the recruitment process are based solely on the qualifications skills knowledge and experience of the applicants and the relevant business requirements.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Arm
- Machine Learning
- Raspberry Pi
- Python
- C/C++
- Image Processing
- 5G
- OS Kernels
- Research Experience
- Firewall
- Research & Development
- Computer Vision
About Company
RobCo is spearheading a revolution in robotics, empowering businesses to thrive by supercharging productivity and freeing them from labor shortage. We are searching for you to build RobCo into the category-leading robotics company in Europe and the US. We’ve raised more than $50 milli ... View more
