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Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)

Aktoria Robotics, San Francisco, California

Posted pay

$450K–$600K

a year

Location: San Francisco, California
Work type: Not given
Level: Not given
Posted: Sep 14, 2026
Last check: 3 days ago
Job type: Research, ML / AI engineering

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Overview

Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models
Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies
Publish papers and benchmarks
data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots

expected to have

experience training IL/VLA policies at scale
First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work

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