Helix Ai Engineer, Video Pretraining

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San Jose, CA, United States
On-site
Large-scale video foundation models
Pretraining strategies for temporal dynamics
Deep learning architectures for video
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of building embodied AI systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world

Job Summary

  • Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of building embodied AI systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world.
  • The Helix AI Engineer, Video Pretraining will lead the development of large-scale video foundation models trained on diverse real-world and robot-collected data.
  • Responsibilities include designing and training models, developing pretraining strategies, building transferable representations, exploring architectures, implementing efficient data pipelines, optimizing performance, and collaborating with other teams.

Matching Summary

Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots with the goal of building embodied AI systems that can perceive, reason, and act in the real world.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • large-scale video foundation models
  • pretraining strategies for temporal dynamics
  • deep learning architectures for video
  • large-scale pretraining experience
  • Python and PyTorch proficiency
  • distributed training systems and GPU clusters
  • scalable and reliable systems development

Nice-to-have

  • frontier video models experience
  • video diffusion or world models background
  • experience at leading AI labs
  • robotics or embodied AI familiarity
  • publication record in AI/ML/CV

Key Requirements

  • Experience training large-scale models on video data
  • Strong understanding of modern deep learning architectures
  • Experience with large-scale pretraining
  • Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks
  • Experience with distributed training systems
  • Strong experimental rigor
  • Solid software engineering skills
  • Ability to operate independently

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