Technical Lead Manager, Physical Ai

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San Francisco, CA, United States
Base: $248,800 - $311,000 usd; equity: included ba...
On-site
Expert-level pytorch proficiency
Deep knowledge of transformer architectures
Experience with vision-language models
The role focuses on developing Large-Scale Foundation Models like VLAs and World models to enable robots to generalize across diverse tasks and environments

Job Summary

  • The role focuses on developing Large-Scale Foundation Models like VLAs and World models to enable robots to generalize across diverse tasks and environments.
  • Candidates will lead a team of 4-6 elite researchers while dedicating approximately 60% of their time to hands-on technical contribution and code implementation.
  • The position offers a competitive base salary range of $248,800 to $311,000 USD along with equity, comprehensive health benefits, and a learning stipend.

Matching Summary

The role focuses on developing Large-Scale Foundation Models like VLAs and World models to enable robots to generalize across diverse tasks and environments.

Salary

Base: $248,800 - $311,000 USD; Equity: Included based on Board approval; Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, vision, retirement, learning stipend, PTO

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Expert-level PyTorch proficiency
  • Deep knowledge of Transformer architectures
  • Experience with Vision-Language Models
  • Hands-on coding for SOTA architectures
  • Large-scale distributed training experience

Nice-to-have

  • First-author publications at top-tier conferences
  • Experience with Isaac Gym or MuJoCo simulators
  • Background in cross-embodiment training
  • High-fidelity simulator domain adaptation

Key Requirements

  • 1+ years leading technical teams in research-intensive environments
  • Proven track record with VLM/VLA adaptation for embodied tasks
  • Strong understanding of imitation learning and reinforcement learning

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