Senior Robotics Learning Engineer — Manufacturing

Strive Robotics; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Strive Robotics is seeking a lead robot learning engineer to build and deploy learned capabilities for robots operating in manufacturing environments. You will own training architecture and implementation, working hands-on across models, data, and evaluation to deliver reliable systems for customer pilots.

You will train, adapt, and deploy models for perception, manipulation, locomotion, and machine operation, applying reinforcement learning and vision-language-action models, and ensuring

Qualifications

• Strong ML fundamentals and ability to train or adapt foundation models.
• Build production ML infrastructure and evaluate performance in real operating conditions.
• Experience deploying learned systems on physical robots and diagnosing failures.
• Hands-on robot learning engineers and technical leads with deployed robotic systems.

Responsibilities

• Train, adapt, and deploy models for perception, manipulation, locomotion, and machine operation.
• Apply reinforcement learning and fine-tune vision-language-action models for task-specific goals.
• Combine specialized models with other approaches and ensure reliability in field pilots.

Skills

ML fundamentals

Deployment experience

Production ML infra

Field performance ownership

Education

MS/PhD in robotics

Job description

Strive Robotics is seeking a lead robot learning engineer to build and deploy learned capabilities for robots operating in manufacturing environments. You will own training architecture and implementation, working hands-on across models, data, and evaluation to deliver reliable systems for customer pilots.

You will train, adapt, and deploy models for perception, manipulation, locomotion, and machine operation, applying reinforcement learning and vision-language-action models, and ensuring