Robotics AI Researcher: Imitation Learning & Pretraining
tau roboticsMillbrae (CA)
Robotics AI Researcher: Imitation Learning & Pretraining
Posted 4 days ago
tau roboticsMillbrae (CA)
SENIORITY
Mid
About the role
Tau Robotics, Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Research Engineer/Scientist focused on imitation learning and pretraining to advance robot autonomy. You will design and scale pretraining pipelines, train multi-task manipulation policies, and define finetuning methods integrated with reinforcement learning. This role emphasizes hands-on experimentation with large multimodal datasets and strong Python + PyTorch or JAX experience, with meaningful equity.
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