AI Resident

AI Residency Program at RoboForceRoboForce is an AI robotics company developing Physical AI–powered Robo-Labor for dull, dirty, and dangerous work. The company's robots are engineered for demanding industrial environments, with a focus on real-world deployment and scalability. The AI Residency Program is designed for exceptional early-career researchers and engineers who want to tackle some of the hardest problems in robotics and AI. Residents will work alongside a deeply technical team on core challenges in embodied physical intelligence, including Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, World Models, World Action Models, and 3D foundation models, as well as the full stack of real-world learning—from efficient data collection systems and simulation to reinforcement learning and deployment on physical robots. This is a hands-on residency for people who want to do ambitious work with real consequences: building learning systems that connect perception, reasoning, and action in service of capable, deployable robots. What makes this program different is the direct connection between research and real-world deployment. Residents work with actual RoboForce robots, iterate quickly between simulation and physical execution, and contribute to systems designed for real use. The problems are hard, the standards are high, and the goal is to build systems that matter outside the lab. Research Focus AreasVision-Language-Action (VLA) models for general-purpose robotic behavior World Models for predictive modeling, planning, and long-horizon decision-making World Action Models for jointly modeling action and environment dynamics Simulation and sim-to-real transfer for scalable training, evaluation, and data generation Reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and policy optimization for embodied agents Multimodal learning across vision, language, proprioception, force, and action Learning systems for manipulation and real-world embodied interaction