Robotics Learning Engineer: Demonstration to Deployment

engineeringjobs.net, Inc.; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

LightSpeed Build Technologies seeks a Robot Learning Engineer to teach robots to perform complex manipulation from human demonstrations. You will own the path from demonstration to deployed behavior, building teleoperation systems, training policies, and proving them on real robots with dexterous hands and custom tooling.

You will shape data collection, refine policies via imitation learning and VLA models, and deploy to real robots with ROS2 control.

Qualifications

• 3 years of hands‑on experience in robot learning, ML for robotics, or closely related production ML.
• Experience training policies from demonstrations on physical robots using imitation learning.
• Experience collecting teleoperation or demonstration data for robot learning.
• Strong PyTorch skills and experience running training, evaluation, and debugging end to end.
• Track record of evaluating models in the real world and diagnosing failures.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve teleoperation pipelines using leader arms for bulk arm motion and VR hand tracking.
• Retarget human hand motion to a dexterous robot hand, developing in simulation first and validating on hardware.
• Design data collection protocols so demonstrations are consistent, well‑structured, and train well.
• Define what data is worth collecting and how much, and guide technicians who run collection sessions.
• Train and fine‑tune manipulation policies using imitation learning and vision-language-action models.
• Choose policy architectures and action representations suited to multi‑step, contact‑rich tasks.
• Combine teleoperation data with human demonstration video to improve policies.
• Iterate quickly from data to trained policy to real‑robot trial.

Skills

Robot learning

Imitation learning

PyTorch

Python

C

ROS/ROS2

Data collection

Education

MS or PhD in Robotics or related field

Tools

MuJoCo

Isaac Sim

rosbag

MCAP

Docker

Git

Job description

LightSpeed Build Technologies seeks a Robot Learning Engineer to teach robots to perform complex manipulation from human demonstrations. You will own the path from demonstration to deployed behavior, building teleoperation systems, training policies, and proving them on real robots with dexterous hands and custom tooling.

You will shape data collection, refine policies via imitation learning and VLA models, and deploy to real robots with ROS2 control.