Robot Learning Researcher (VLA / Foundation Models)
Aktoria Robotics · San Francisco, CA, US · Y Combinator Summer 2026
- Salary
- $450K - $600K
- Equity
- 1.00% - 2.00%
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Type
- Full-time
- Experience
- Any (new grads ok)
- Visa
- Will sponsor
- Posted
- 14 Sep 2026
- Listed until
- 23 Nov 2026, or when it closes
About the role
- 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
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