Robotics Engineer (Physical AI/ VLA Models)

PeopleGene; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

PeopleGene in Bengaluru, India focuses on robotics research and practical deployment of intelligent robotic systems. The role involves developing reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and vision-language-action models for physical robots, and transferring trained policies to real hardware.

You will work with high-fidelity simulators, ROS 2 stacks, and sensor fusion to build end-to-end robotic solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 3+ years of hands-on software and hardware engineering experience in robotics or embodied AI.
• Strong proficiency in Python and C++.
• Experience with ROS/ROS 2, Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with PyTorch or JAX and physics-based simulators.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement RL, imitation learning, VLA models, or behavior cloning for robots.
• Train, test, validate policies in simulators and transfer to hardware.
• Architect and maintain robot software stacks using ROS 2 with sensor data integration.
• Implement kinematics, dynamics, trajectory optimization, and low-level control.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and CV teams to debug and stress-test systems.
• Build data generation, domain randomization, and teleoperation data pipelines for AI training.

Skills

Python

C++

Robot software

Machine learning basics

Education

Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field

Tools

ROS/ROS 2

Git

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

• Develop and implement reinforcement learning (RL), imitation learning, vision-language-action (VLA) models, or behavior cloning policies for physical robots.
• Train, test, and validate policies in high-fidelity simulators and transfer them reliably to physical hardware.
• Architect and maintain robot software stacks using ROS 2, integrating sensor data (LiDAR, RGB-D cameras, IMUs) and edge compute platforms.
• Implement kinematics, dynamics, trajectory optimization, and low-level control systems.
• Collaborate with mechanical, electrical, and computer vision teams to debug, benchmark, and stress-test end-to-end robotic applications in real-world lab or field environments.
• Build and manage scalable synthetic data generation, domain randomization, and teleoperation data collection pipelines for AI training.

Good to have:

• Experience with Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models or foundation models for robotics.
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Robotics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Prior 3+ years of hands‑on software and hardware engineering experience in robotics or embodied AI.
• Strong proficiency in Python and C++.
• Deep experience with ROS / ROS 2, Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with PyTorch or JAX, and physics-based simulators.
• Solid grasp of forward/inverse kinematics, rigid-body dynamics, state estimation, sensor fusion, and classical/learning-based control.
• Proven track record of running and debugging code on real physical robots (e.g., robotic arms, mobile manipulators, humanoids, or quadrupeds).