Founding Robotics ML Engineer: Research to Real Hardware

Maxwell Bond; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Founding Robotics ML Research Engineer to turn cutting-edge robot learning into reliable, production-ready systems. You will work at the intersection of research and production, developing learning-based manipulation and autonomous behaviours, and building data collection and deployment infrastructure for hardware.

You'll explore research directions, train models, deploy to hardware, and iterate based on real-world results, influencing the stack and development culture

Qualifications

• A background in Robotics, Computer Science, Machine Learning or a related technical discipline.
• An MS or PhD in a relevant field is preferred.
• Practical experience with diffusion policies, vision-language-action models or other modern robot learning architectures
• Experience developing and deploying learning-based control or perception algorithms on real robotic systems
• Strong knowledge of modern ML tools, architectures and development workflows
• A solid understanding of classical manipulation, control theory and motion planning
• Experience taking ML models from experimentation through to deployment
• Familiarity with robotic teleoperation and data collection techniques
• A strong experimental mindset and the ability to work effectively in a fast-moving environment

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy learning-based policies for complex robotic manipulation tasks
• Research and apply modern approaches including behaviour cloning, reinforcement learning, 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

Research mindset

Fast-moving environment

Education

MS or PhD in a relevant field

Job description

Maxwell Bond is seeking a Founding Robotics ML Research Engineer to turn cutting-edge robot learning into reliable, production-ready systems. You will work at the intersection of research and production, developing learning-based manipulation and autonomous behaviours, and building data collection and deployment infrastructure for hardware.

You'll explore research directions, train models, deploy to hardware, and iterate based on real-world results, influencing the stack and development culture