Embodied AI Lead / Robot Brain Lead

The role

You will own the overall Embodied AI architecture for the platform. This includes System 2 vision-language models, System 1 visuomotor policies, and world models. You will act as an architect and hands-on technical leader guiding a small team.

What you will do

• Design the overall Robot Brain architecture
• Define a short-term and long-term technical roadmap
• Make key decisions on model families and training strategies
• Lead the implementation and deployment of the first production version of the Robot Brain
• Drive iterative improvements as tasks and sites expand
• Co-design skills with Control and Robotics teams
• Align Brain capabilities with real workflows and job definitions
• Define training data schemas and logging requirements
• Build end-to-end training and deployment pipelines
• Hire, mentor, and lead a small Embodied AI team

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in CS, Robotics, EE, or related field
• 5+ years in ML / robotics
• 2+ years in a lead / tech lead role
• Deep experience in at least two of: Proven track record deploying ML models on real robotic hardware, not just simulation; Strong coding skills in Python and experience with PyTorch or JAX, multi-GPU

Nice to have

• PhD or equivalent industry research experience in Robotics, AI, Machine Learning, or a related field
• Hands-on experience with foundation models for robotics, such as VLMs, VLAs, or multimodal LLM-based agents applied to real-world embodied tasks
• Experience building or scaling robot learning systems in production, including data collection at scale, sim-to-real transfer, and continuous learning loops

Benefits

• Healthcare + dental + vision benefits (Free for you/discounted for family)
• 401(k) options
• Casual dress code + relaxed work environment
• Culturally diverse, progressive atmosphere

About the company

Faraday Future is a California-based technology company focused on the design, engineering, and development of intelligent, connected electric vehicles and related artificial intelligence–enabled technologies. The Company operates across multiple technology-driven areas, including AI electric vehicles, robotics, and its crypto business (AIXC).