Robotics Research Engineer: World Models

Runway; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Runway in New York, New York is seeking a Research Engineer to own the robotics vertical of their world models. This role requires designing end-to-end robot learning pipelines and managing deployments on real hardware. Candidates should have hands-on experience with modern policies and comfortable working across software and hardware.

This position offers opportunities to impact general-purpose simulation in robotics, requiring collaboration with internal teams and external partners. If you're driven to change the world, we'd love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Hands-on robotics experience spanning data collection, model training, and physical evaluation.
• Direct experience with modern learned policies on real hardware.
• Experience with robot data collection and demonstration pipelines.
• Strong intuition for the robot learning lifecycle.
• Comfort working across various systems.
• Proficiency with at least one ML framework.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute end-to-end robot learning pipelines.
• Deploy and iterate on learned policies on real robot hardware.
• Run controlled experiments for performance evaluation.
• Build and maintain physical evaluation benchmarks.
• Coordinate robot data collection efforts.
• Partner with the research team for robotics applications.
• Identify and resolve robotics stack bottlenecks.

Skills

Hands-on robotics experience

Experience with modern learned policies

Strong intuition for robot learning lifecycle

Comfort with software, hardware, and physical systems

Proficiency with ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)

Experience with generative models

Job description

Runway in New York, New York is seeking a Research Engineer to own the robotics vertical of their world models. This role requires designing end-to-end robot learning pipelines and managing deployments on real hardware. Candidates should have hands-on experience with modern policies and comfortable working across software and hardware.

This position offers opportunities to impact general-purpose simulation in robotics, requiring collaboration with internal teams and external partners. If you're driven to change the world, we'd love to hear from you.