Research Engineer, Post-training & Deployment

Skild AI is building the world's first general purpose robotic intelligence, and they are seeking a Research Engineer to improve foundation models and deploy them onto robots. The role involves working with customers and deployment data to ensure reliable robot behavior in real-world environments and bridging the gap between experimental prototypes and operational deployments.

Responsibilities:

• Research, post-train and evaluate large deep learning models for robotic manipulation tasks
• Develop frameworks to continuously improve robot behaviors
• Collaborate closely with our product teams to source and iterate on customer requirements to ensure technical alignment for on-site deployments
• Own scenario setup and data collection methodologies, managing the operational lifecycle for unique customer use-cases
• Work with our robotics teams to maintain and ensure robots are deployment-ready and execute full-stack software and hardware deployments at customer sites
• Build robust testing and evaluation pipelines for tracking model improvements and corner cases