Tech Lead, Robotic AI Model
Faraday Future6 months ago
El Segundo, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and execute post-training pipelines for VLA and visuomotor policy models.
- Fine-tune pretrained robot foundation models on task-specific datasets.
- Develop reward functions and RL training loops to enhance policy robustness.
- Build and manage large-scale robot demonstration data pipelines.
- Define data collection strategies and ensure dataset diversity.
- Build and maintain simulation environments for scalable policy training.
- Address sim-to-real transfer challenges through various techniques.
- Build evaluation infrastructure for automated success-rate tracking.
- Optimize models for on-robot inference and real-time control.
- Track and adopt state-of-the-art research in robot foundation models.
Requirements
- Master’s or PhD in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in robot learning.
- Deep expertise in at least one post-training paradigm.
- Strong PyTorch skills with experience in model training and debugging.
- Practical experience with robot simulation platforms.
- Understanding of action representations for robotics.
- Solid Python engineering skills and familiarity with ROS/ROS2.
- Ability to independently drive projects from research to deployment.
Benefits
- Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits (Free for you/discounted for family).
- 401(k) options.
- Casual dress code and relaxed work environment.
- Culturally diverse and progressive atmosphere.
About Faraday Future
Faraday Future builds intelligent, connected electric vehicles and complementary digital services for premium buyers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Gardena, California, the company’s flagship FF 91 luxury EV anchors its product roadmap. Revenue comes from vehicle sales and software-enabled services aimed at the high-end EV market.