Principal AI Research Engineer: Robotics & World Models

reflexrobotics

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Reflex Robotics is building general-purpose, AI-powered humanoid robots for tough industrial work. You’ll join a small team with high ownership and equity, helping shape the product from the ground up and drive deployment in real-world settings.

We seek engineers who can architect and train scalable models, turn generative models into practical simulators, and build robust data and evaluation pipelines to quantify policy success. This is a builder role with significant impact and upside.

Qualifications

  • Architected and trained large-scale video/world models (e.g., Sora, Veo).
  • Turned generative models into controllable simulators: action-/state-conditioned rollouts.
  • Built the data and eval stack for world modeling to quantify downstream policy success.

Skills

Video/world models
Generative models to simulators
World modeling data/eval stack

Job description

Reflex Robotics is building general-purpose, AI-powered humanoid robots for tough industrial work. You’ll join a small team with high ownership and equity, helping shape the product from the ground up and drive deployment in real-world settings.

We seek engineers who can architect and train scalable models, turn generative models into practical simulators, and build robust data and evaluation pipelines to quantify policy success. This is a builder role with significant impact and upside.

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