Lead Dexterous Manipulation Research Engineer (VLA)

Flexion; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 171.000 - 256.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive pay

Pension plan

Paid leave

Relocation sponsorship

Zurich office facilities

European robotics team

Collaborative culture

Descripción de la vacante

Flexion seeks an expert in dexterous manipulation to lead physical foundation model development for humanoid robots. You will bridge egocentric video observations and high-DOF motor control to enable fluid, human-like robot interaction.

You will work in Zurich to architect models, integrate egocentric priors with real-time policies, and ensure reliable hardware manipulation in unstructured environments.

Formación

• PhD or MSc in Robotics, ML or related field.
• Experience with humanoid or dexterous manipulation and contact-rich physics.
• Proficiency in Python and PyTorch; experience with large-scale training.

Responsabilidades

• Scalable egocentric pre-training objectives for hand-object interactions and spatio-temporal dynamics.
• Develop and scale multi-modal VLA foundation models for robotic trajectories.
• Design and optimize generative action heads using diffusion models and flow-matching.
• Align human-centric video representations with 20+ DoF humanoid kinematics.
• Apply offline RL and high-fidelity simulation to improve manipulation performance.
• Translate cutting-edge scaling laws and world models into production-ready architectures.

Conocimientos

Python

PyTorch

Diffusion Models

Flow Matching

Transformers

Distributed training

Educación

PhD or MSc in Robotics/ML

Herramientas

IsaacLab

MuJoCo

NCCL

FSDP

Descripción del empleo

Flexion seeks an expert in dexterous manipulation to lead physical foundation model development for humanoid robots. You will bridge egocentric video observations and high-DOF motor control to enable fluid, human-like robot interaction.

You will work in Zurich to architect models, integrate egocentric priors with real-time policies, and ensure reliable hardware manipulation in unstructured environments.