Autonomy Engineer VLA Pre-Training

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humanoidSan Diego (CA)

Robotics Engineers Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)

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About the role

Humanoid seeks an Autonomy Engineer focused on VLA pre‑training to advance the world’s most capable humanoid platform. You will pre‑train base models on a diverse corpus, fine‑tune policies for task performance, and shape data collection and synthetic data generation workflows. The role emphasizes deep learning, with or without robotics background, and collaboration with MLOps and data teams to scale training and optimize edge inference. California base salary is competitive.

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