Robotics AI Research Engineer

The role

You will architect the neural backbone of general-purpose robots. This involves designing VLA frameworks or Action World Models to allow robots to reason and adapt.

What you will do

• Design model architectures like VLA and World Models
• Develop novel co-training strategies and efficient learning algorithms
• Build models capable of zero-shot or few-shot adaptation to new robot configurations
• Formulate and deploy novel Reinforcement Learning and policy extraction methods
• Collaborate on advanced data collection systems

Required qualifications

• MS or PhD in CS, Robotics, Machine Learning, or a related field (or equivalent industry experience)
• Advanced understanding of transformers, multi-modal alignment, and mapping perception to high-frequency motor control
• Proven ability to innovate within VLA models, Real-world RL, or large-scale Data Infrastructure
• Expert-level Python
• Deep familiarity with PyTorch or JAX

Nice to have

• A track record of high-impact publications (NeurIPS, ICRA, RSS, CVPR) or significant open-source contributions
• Experience with large-scale distributed training and model compression
• Experience with deployment of models to edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson/Orin) for real-time inference
• General knowledge of robotics principles (kinematics, dynamics)

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• 401k
• Other employee benefits

About the company

Maven Robotics designs, builds, and deploys intelligent robotics for logistics and manufacturing. They are building the first general-purpose robotics system for industrial work.