Founding Staff Engineer, Robotics & Action Learning

Stealth AI Startup; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Stealth AI Startup in Redwood City seeks a Founding Member of Technical Staff to advance how robot policies are learned from human video. You will shape representations of actions and align video objectives with learned actions, integrating post-training against real robot behavior.

The team hails from Meta, Google, and CMU, with multi-million seed funding. This is an in-person role in Redwood City offering founding-tier equity and visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Trained a model that outputs actions at scale.
• Hands-on with video generative models at scale.
• Experience with learning actions from unlabeled video or VLA/post-training.
• Released code/checkpoints or a first-author paper used by others.
• Led a full training run from data to infra to evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Work on how actions are represented and learned from human data, and how video objectives train with action models; develop post-training against robot behavior.

Skills

Model training at scale

Video generative models

Learning from unlabeled video

VLA training or post-training

Diffusion or flow-matching policies

Job description

Stealth AI Startup in Redwood City seeks a Founding Member of Technical Staff to advance how robot policies are learned from human video. You will shape representations of actions and align video objectives with learned actions, integrating post-training against real robot behavior.

The team hails from Meta, Google, and CMU, with multi-million seed funding. This is an in-person role in Redwood City offering founding-tier equity and visa sponsorship.