Robotics Learning Engineer - Real-World Policy Deployment

Maxinsights; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision care

Dental coverage

401(k)

Paid holidays

PTO (Paid Time Off)

Sick leave

Job summary

Maxinsights is seeking a Robotics Research Engineer/Scientist to develop learning-based methods enabling robots to perform complex tasks in the real world. You will work on robot learning, policy training, and deployment, exploring imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

This role emphasizes hands-on experimentation, translating research ideas into working robotic systems, with collaboration across infrastructure, simulation, and data teams to

Qualifications

• PhD in Robotics/CS/ML or related field, or substantial hands-on work with learning-based robotics.
• Strong Python programming and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch.
• Experience with at least one learning-based robotics approach (e.g., imitation learning, RL, diffusion policies, or VLA).
• Understanding of robotic manipulation, perception, control, or visuomotor learning.
• Ability to design and run experiments to evaluate learned policies.
• Proven problem-solving skills and translating research ideas into working systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and train learning-based policies for robotic manipulation and embodied tasks.
• Apply imitation learning, reinforcement learning, diffusion policies, and VLA models.
• Work on visuomotor policies, bimanual and dexterous manipulation, and generalization.
• Design data collection and training pipelines with robot demonstrations.
• Deploy trained policies on physical robots and debug performance in real-world environments.
• Design rigorous experiments to evaluate task success, robustness, and generalization.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, simulation, and data teams to accelerate robot learning research.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Problem solving

Hands-on

Education

PhD in Robotics/CS/ML or equivalent

MS degree considered

Tools

PyTorch

ROS

Job description

Maxinsights is seeking a Robotics Research Engineer/Scientist to develop learning-based methods enabling robots to perform complex tasks in the real world. You will work on robot learning, policy training, and deployment, exploring imitation learning, reinforcement learning, and Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models.

This role emphasizes hands-on experimentation, translating research ideas into working robotic systems, with collaboration across infrastructure, simulation, and data teams to