Nimble Robotics
AI Robotics Research Engineer
San Francisco, CA · Exec
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About the role
- Nimble is looking for an AI Robotics Research Engineer to help us advance our robotics moonshot by designing, developing, training, and implementing robotic foundation models, Vision-Language-Action Models, general-purpose robotic AI models, and reinforcement learning algorithms controlling multi-agent robot fleets.
- You will play a critical role in working with our all-star cross-functional team to build models with immediate applications for the world's biggest robotics opportunity.
Responsibilities
- Develop and train diffusion policies, VLMs, multi-agent deep RL policies and more
- Develop data collection pipelines
- Design data annotation and labeling
- Support implementation of models into production systems
Requirements
- Experience working with real robotic hardware
- Experience collecting custom datasets
- Experience training on open-source datasets
- Strong track record of publishing papers and/or deploying real-world applications
- Experience with system architecture, design and development
- Must be able to work extended hours and weekends as needed
- Must be able to work in San Francisco
- Masters or P.h.D in Robotics or Computer Science
- Experience training deep learning models for robotic manipulation or mobility
- Experience training models in simulation and developing simulation environments
Compensation
- We've raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue.
Company info
- We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world's best engineers and operators.
- We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial.
- Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.
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