AI Research Engineering Lead

mimic robotics is a frontier physical AI company building general-purpose dexterous manipulation systems across robotics hardware and software. The AI Research Engineering Lead will co-lead the AI team by advancing multimodal video-action models, scaling foundation-model training and data pipelines, mentoring research engineers and scientists, and partnering on real-world robot deployment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead research, architecture design, and training for large-scale, multi-task foundation models across pre- and post-training
• Manage the end-to-end data pipeline—from raw human teleoperation data specification to model training, fine-tuning, and real-world robot evals
• Guide AI research engineers and scientists, setting high standards for ML engineering, experimental velocity, and empirical evaluation
• Partner with hardware and robotics teams to align data collection efforts with benchmarking of trained models and stable real-world deployment