AI Robotics Residency: Build Real-World Embodied Intelligence

RoboForce; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 102,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-provided lunch and dinner

Fully stocked kitchen

Team events

Premium fitness center membership

Access to large-scale GPU clusters

Job summary

RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The AI Residency Program offers hands-on research with RoboForce robots, bridging simulation and real-world deployment to advance embodied physical intelligence.

As an AI Resident, you will work on VLA models, World Models, RL, and multimodal learning across perception, planning, and action. This one-year-ish residency focuses on real-world impact and scalable robotics solutions.

Qualifications

• PhD student, recent graduate, or early-career researcher/engineer in Computer Science, Robotics, Machine Learning, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow.
• Experience using AI‑assisted coding tools and agentic development workflows to prototype, iterate, and build quickly.
• Ability to implement, debug, and evaluate research ideas in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong engineering judgment, including the ability to validate, refine, and productionize AI‑assisted code.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research and build systems for embodied physical intelligence.
• Develop and evaluate methods in VLA, World Models, World Action Models, simulation, and RL.
• Design and run experiments on robotics tasks involving perception, planning, control, and long-horizon behavior.
• Build training and evaluation pipelines for large-scale embodied learning systems.
• Work closely with research and engineering teams to move ideas from prototype to real or simulated robot platforms.
• Explore how multimodal foundation models can improve robot capability in real deployment settings.
• Contribute to technical reports, internal research discussions, and, where appropriate, publications.

Skills

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Prototyping

ML research

Education

PhD student/early-career researcher

Tools

Isaac Gym

Isaac Sim

MuJoCo

ManiSkill

Habitat

Job description

RoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The AI Residency Program offers hands-on research with RoboForce robots, bridging simulation and real-world deployment to advance embodied physical intelligence.

As an AI Resident, you will work on VLA models, World Models, RL, and multimodal learning across perception, planning, and action. This one-year-ish residency focuses on real-world impact and scalable robotics solutions.