Robotics AI Research Engineer - CoRL
Maven Robotics2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$175k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design VLA and Action World Model architectures for general-purpose robotic manipulation.
- Develop data-efficient co-training strategies and learning algorithms using diverse video and human-intervention data.
- Build models that adapt across changing robot configurations and embodiments.
- Formulate and deploy reinforcement learning and policy extraction methods for physical, real-world manipulation.
- Collaborate on data collection systems that capture human intervention data for model bootstrapping.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- Advanced understanding of transformers, multimodal alignment, and mapping perception to high-frequency motor control.
- Proven ability to innovate in VLA models, real-world reinforcement learning, or large-scale data infrastructure.
- Expert-level Python proficiency and deep familiarity with PyTorch or JAX.
- Preferred qualifications include high-impact publications or significant open-source contributions.
- Preferred qualifications include large-scale distributed training, model compression, and deployment to NVIDIA Jetson/Orin edge devices.
- General knowledge of robotics principles such as kinematics and dynamics is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits.
- 401(k) and other employee benefits.
About Maven Robotics
Maven Robotics is building the world’s leading general-purpose AI robots.