Senior Robot Learning Engineer

Auxo Talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Auxo Talent is recruiting on behalf of a well-funded Physical AI company in the Bay Area. They build the intelligence that lets robots operate in the real world, led by engineers who have shipped hardware and software at scale.

The Senior Robot Learning Engineer will train and deploy learned policies on real robots, collaborating with hardware and controls teams to ship impactful features to production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in machine learning with robotics or embodied AI.
• Experience running learned policies on physical hardware.
• Strong Python and PyTorch.
• Experience with manipulation, locomotion, or mobile robots.

Responsibilities

• Train and deploy learned policies on real robots.
• Work across imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language-action models.
• Build the data and evaluation pipelines that improve models.
• Collaborate with hardware and controls teams to deploy on robots.

Skills

Python

PyTorch

Robotics

Imitation learning

Reinforcement learning

Vision models

Job description

Our client is a well-funded Physical AI company in the Bay Area. They build the intelligence that lets robots work in the real world. The team is led by engineers who have shipped hardware and software at scale, and they are growing quickly after a recent funding round.

They are hiring a Senior Robot Learning Engineer to build the learned policies that drive their robots.

What you'd be doing

• Training and deploying learned policies on real robots
• Working across imitation learning, reinforcement learning, or vision-language-action models
• Building the data and evaluation pipelines that make models better
• Working with hardware and controls teams to get results onto the robot

What you'll bring

• 5+ years in machine learning, with real time spent on robotics or embodied AI
• Experience getting a learned policy running on physical hardware
• Strong Python and PyTorch
• Experience with manipulation, locomotion, or mobile robots

Why apply

• Well funded, with a long runway and real customers
• A small senior team, so you'll own a big piece of the work
• Your work goes onto real hardware, not just into papers
• AUXO Talent is the recruitment partner for this role, and we'll share the company name on a first call