Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)
- Full-time
- On-site · San Francisco, CA, US
- $450K - $600K · 1.00% - 2.00% equity
Posted
Apply on YC · Original job listing
- Role: Science / Research
- Experience: Any (new grads ok)
- Visa: Will sponsor
- Train / fine-tune VLAs and robot foundation models
- Run data-quality ablations and scaling studies
- Publish papers and benchmarks
- data curation, filtering, formats, evals on real robots
expected to have:
- experience training IL/VLA policies at scale
- First-author publications (CoRL/ICRA/IROS/RSS/NeurIPS) or equivalent strong open-source work
Source: Y Combinator job 109688. Listed on YC when retrieved 2026-11-02.