Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)
About the role
- Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models
- Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies
- Publish papers and benchmarks
- data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots
expected to have:
- experience training IL/VLA policies at scale
- First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work
About Aktoria Robotics
Human as API for robots
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Job details
Salary
$450,000 - $600,000
Equity
1% - 2%
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.