Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots
Job Summary
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots.
This role focuses on advancing pretraining methods that enable generalization, reasoning, and adaptability—forming the backbone for downstream capabilities in perception, planning, and action.
Design and train large-scale foundation models across multimodal data (e.g., text, vision, and robot data).
Matching Summary
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
large-scale foundation models
multimodal data training
transformer-based architectures
distributed training pipelines
Python and PyTorch proficiency
Nice-to-have
frontier foundation model experience
multimodal pretraining expertise
scaling laws and dataset mixture
post-training techniques
embodied AI and robotics familiarity
Key Requirements
Experience training large-scale foundation models
Strong understanding of modern deep learning architectures
Experience with large-scale distributed training
Proficiency in Python and deep learning frameworks