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