Founding Robotics ML Research Engineer

Maxwell Bond; Boston; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Founding Robotics ML Research Engineer to translate cutting-edge robot learning into reliable, real-world systems. The role sits at the intersection of robotics research and production engineering, developing and deploying learning-based policies for manipulation and autonomous behavior on physical robots.

You will build data pipelines, train models, and run them on hardware, iterating based on real-world results while collaborating with perception, controls, planning

Qualifications

• Background in Robotics, Computer Science, ML or related technical discipline.
• MS or PhD in a relevant field preferred.
• Experience training large-scale manipulation models.
• Experience deploying learning-based control or perception on real robots.
• Strong knowledge of ML tools, architectures and workflows.
• Solid understanding of manipulation, control theory and motion planning.
• Experience taking ML models from experimentation through deployment.
• Familiarity with robotic teleoperation and data collection techniques.
• Research contributions to conferences are valuable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy learning-based policies for complex robotic manipulation tasks
• Research and apply modern approaches including diffusion policies and vision-language-action models
• Build and lead the software infrastructure supporting robotic data collection, model training and real-time inference
• Translate emerging robotics learning research into reliable, production-ready systems
• Experiment with new architectures, training strategies and data-generation approaches
• Evaluate model performance on physical robots and iterate based on real-world results
• Work closely with robotics engineers across perception, controls, planning and software
• Develop systems capable of running learning-based models reliably on real robotic hardware
• Contribute to the technical direction of the company's robotics learning stack
• Help bridge the gap between research prototypes and robust deployed systems

Skills

Robotics

Computer Science

Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Diffusion Policies

Vision-Language-Action Models

Control Theory

Motion Planning

Deployment to Real Hardware

Embedded AI

Education

MS or PhD in a relevant field

Tools

Diffusion Models

Vision-Language-Action Models

Job description

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Founding Robotics ML Research Engineer to translate cutting-edge robot learning into reliable, real-world systems. The role sits at the intersection of robotics research and production engineering, developing and deploying learning-based policies for manipulation and autonomous behavior on physical robots.

You will build data pipelines, train models, and run them on hardware, iterating based on real-world results while collaborating with perception, controls, planning